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...diversified backgrounds of its members somehow seem to pull the squad into a close-knit unit that has allowed only two goals in five games, while scoring 11 itself. But today's contest poses an exceptionally difficult challenge, as the team feels obliged to better Yale's score over Andover...
Psychologically, the delinquents tended more to direct and concrete, rather than symbolic, intellectual expression and were less methodical than the non-delinquents in their approach to problems. In physical make-up, the offenders were essentially mesomorphic (solid, closely knit, muscular...
...images-but with a difference. The classical tradition, reasserted in the Renaissance, has always been that people are beautiful, at least in art. The new imagemakers dispute that. Their figures are human, but horrible. The horror school has its center in Chicago, is staffed by an earnest, loose-knit and surprisingly well-adjusted handful of Art Institute graduates...
...days, in San Francisco's Civic Auditorium, 1,000 delegates to the 44th triennial convention of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod labored to keep their closely knit conservative denomination (2,200,000 members) as closely knit and conservative as ever. To further both aims, the convention re-elected Dr. John W. Behnken president for another three-year term. To 75-year-old Dr. Behnken, who has headed the synod for the past 24 years, sound and solid doctrinal agreement is the only safe basis of collaboration with any other church body; his election is a guarantee that the Missouri...
...that is often painful and disabling, and fatal when it bursts. Daringly, Dr. DeBakey began to cut out aneurysms and replace the damaged section of aorta with a graft from an artery bank. Gradually, with improved techniques and materials, he inched closer to the heart. By 1956, with specially knit synthetic tubing (better for many cases than artery-bank material), and an oxygenator fitted to an updated model of his 1932 pump, Dr. DeBakey was able to operate within a couple of inches of the heart, and stop its beat at will...