Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headlines. Most of Hickenlooper's facts & figures had been gathering dust in committee files for months. And just three weeks ago Hickenlooper himself had publicly praised the "record of loyalty and character in this whole project." With a patient confidence, Lilienthal began to take Hickenlooper's charges apart. For one thing, Hickenlooper had put all the blame on Lilienthal, though AEC and its laboratories (Argonne), atom plants (Hanford) and proving grounds (Eniwetok) are governed by a full five-man commission, and not by Chairman Lilienthal alone. And of more than 500 formal decisions taken by the commission only...
Treatments were given a week apart at first, then at longer intervals depending on the patient's response; average number given was less than three. All patients left the hospital without sign of rheumatic heart disease except mechanical damage that had already taken place in the heart; 20 have returned to normal activity; one died, from another disease, and one "gained immeasurably." The three doctors concluded that "UBI" (ultraviolet blood irradiation) is safe and may prove, after further tests, to be the best treatment available...
...picture itself, it really is a fine job. Riches and ornament are lavished upon it but something sets it apart from the ordinary brassy Technicolor revue: possibly the plot, possibly the staging, possibly the perennial wisecracks of Oscar Levant. But however you look at it, credit will eventually bounce back on Astaire and Rogers. Cast as a bickering husband-wife stage team, these two leap, slide, and tap their way through scene after scene of pleasant comedy and wonderful dancing, and what's more, seem to enjoy...
...Hawkings, "and I saved my bed of anchusas and the bushes of weigela and nemophila from being dug up for a trench, by showing them how to take better shelter down by the lily pond. I got them so sympathetic for my garden that they even held the flowers apart so they could thread barbed wire without breaking the blooms...
Calumet's greatest pair, while the same age (four) and the same height (16 hands), are poles apart in temperament and style. Citation is the class horse, a rugged bay that runs only as fast as he has to. "A Chinaman could train him," says Ben Jones. The only one he is hard on around the barn is his exercise boy; he gets his head low in morning gallops and just about pulls his rider's arms out of their sockets. He is a glutton for feed...