Word: meredith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vola Blakely is a convincing and wistfully tragic Miriamme, and she is notable for never falling out of part as do most of the others at one time or another. William Shea's Mio is versatile and effective--would be more so if he would stop trying to out-Meredith the inimitable Burgess...
...Burgess Meredith, as master of ceremonies, set the mood: "What we have to say seriously, can be simply said. It's this:Democracy is a good thing. It works. It may creak a bit, but it works. And in its working, it still turns out good times, good news, good people. . . . And so, Life, Liberty and most particularly the Pursuit of Happiness, of these we sing!" In the first few weeks: Ray Middleton sang Maxwell Anderson's How Can You Tell An American; the editor of the Randolph (Vt.) weekly Herald and News reported the first Vermont freeze...
...Journal of the American Medical Association last week Dr. Walter Meredith Boothby and colleagues* of the Mayo Clinic published a complete report of their new doughnut-shaped rubber oxygen mask (TIME, Jan. 16). Oxygen administered in hospitals through cumbersome, complicated oxygen tents usually costs a patient $12 to $25 a day. Use of the small, neat inhalation mask, said Dr. Boothby, "should average only $5 to $8 a day," and in certain cases a patient "can be taught the entire technique of administering the oxygen to himself at home...
...Olympians include Albert de Szent-Györgyi, the Hungarian Nobel Prizewinner who found vitamin C in paprika; Wendell Meredith Stanley of Rockefeller Institute, who succeeded in crystallizing a virus; Frits Went of California Institute of Technology, No. 1 U. S. researcher on plant hormones. There is just one mildly disturbing thing about the assembly. One of the most distinguished of the 16*-one whose solid scientific achievements are no greater than those of some others but who stands out because he is a notable leader of science, teacher of science, preacher of science, historian of science, analyst of science...
...James E. Meredith...