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...great proportion of the rooms at Winthrop contain dumb-bells, and plaster casts of the discus-thrower outnumber other sculpture three to one. This is because Winthrop members are traditionally athletic, and show no sign of relaxing their interest in intramural and all-College sports. There are even some intra-House sports, such as water-fighting, which have been highly organized in the past...
...into the folds of trees. Before storms, leaves and flowers appear to burn with a private light, color, and Miss Bobbit, got up in a little white skirt like a powderpuff and with strips of gold-glittering tinsel ribboning her hair, seemed, set against the darkening all around, to contain this illuminated quality . . . She stood that way for a good long while, and Aunt El said it was right smart...
...would have been far less of a sacrifice us a warmer-up than the Handel Concerto Grosso in B Flat. Otherwise the program was interesting and consecutive. Malcolm Holmes arranged the Purcell suite from separate dances which he found. With the exception of the Large-Minuet, all the movements contain delightful duets for violin and flute. Howard Brown played with skill but was too frequently obscured by the concert master's able, but over-enthusiastic, performance...
Sustained Meanness. These were measurements to apply in the future. Acheson had an assignment to carry out a policy already clearly outlined. The policy was to keep a hard eye on the Russian neighbor and to contain him on the ground he had seized. This was not the way Americans usually liked to behave. They liked to be on a friendly basis with everyone, and if there were any differences, have things out and get it over with. But the U.S. was going to have to be unneighborly for a good many years to come. It was a policy which...
Next day the DuPont Co., maker of nylon, issued a somewhat huffy communique. Strong acids "degrade" (weaken) nylon yarn, and soot particles sometimes contain enough sulphuric acid to do the deed. But it does not happen often. Except to a few uncommon chemicals, DuPont insisted, nylon is at least as resistant as silk, rayon or cotton...