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...scientists now produce new cheeses with the flick of an ultraviolet-ray machine? Cautioned the University of Wisconsin's Dr. William Hendrickson: "The chances are one in a million that you'd hit it right if you started out to create a new starting material for cheese." His conclusion: Knight, like the shepherd boy, was "darn lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Laboratory Cheese | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

Crimson fans can see the dubious decision for themselves at 8 p.m. tonight in Emerson D. All undergraduates and their dates are welcome upon presentation of bursar's cards. Entitled "Tuea Last Stand," the flick features the unsuccessful Indian uprising of Barefoot Beagie and runs for about 60 exciting minutes...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: BETWEEN THE LINES | 10/27/1953 | See Source »

...brush in Vag's hand whipped over his glistening shoes in offbeat rhythm to the tune he was whistling. It was "Over There," with many martial trills and cadenzas. ". . .And we won't come back tum de tum tum over there," he finished with a satisfied flick of a shoe cloth...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Harvard Square Irregular | 10/17/1953 | See Source »

...failed to provide anything much to look at through the polaroid glasses. Said one California sage: "Every studio in Hollywood agrees that the 3-D vogue is practically dead." Even the news from Washington that an, inventor had patented polaroid sun glasses that can be changed with the flick of a finger into 3-D spectacles failed to cheer the true stereoscopists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Birthday of the Revolution | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...smile, or at least you stretch your mouth and put it up at the corners, and then you [here he makes a little spitting noise that sounds like "thhsp!"] flick a hair off with the end of your tongue, a tiny hair, and that's all there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Young Man with a Horn | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

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