Word: lucien
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book is Better Learning Through Current Materials (Stanford University Press, $3), written by members of the California Council on Improvement of Instruction and edited by Lucien Kinney and Katharine Dresden. (The Saturday Review of Literature not long ago listed it as one of the important educational books...
...Research Institute and financed by the Western Oil & Gas Association. Said S.R.I.'s Paul L. Magill: elemental sulphur (i.e., not in compounds) might be to blame for eye irritation. So might some aldehydes. Another theory offered to the chemists: organic peroxides might be the tear-jerking villains. Dr. Lucien Dau-trebande, a Belgian smog expert, also working at S.R.I, with Oil & Gas funds, said that an eye irritant would be at least twice as irritating if suspended in oil droplets. And there was no doubt that Los Angeles' smog contained...
Disillusion dogged the trail of Saint-Sylvestre's Forty-Niners. Farmer Lucien Cantiant's cows had lost their pasture to government prospectors; they were thin with hunger. Lucien himself had not yet received a sou of the 16,000 francs yearly indemnitv promised him. Without compensation how could he buy a new pasture? His tiny wife Marguerite railed that it was all his fault in the first place. When the strangers came from Paris he had let them dig holes in the fields. She had seen Lucien also with a pick in hand. "What are you doing...
...France. From Premier Henri Queuille down, few seemed to have been spared. Two hundred Paris cops were on sick leave. In the Rhone Valley, 100,000 people were flat on their backs. In Alengon, schools had to be closed for want of teachers and pupils. Chief Flu-Fighter Dr. Lucien Bernard, of the Ministry of Public Health, was struck down himself...
...with the Nazis. The movie was mildly applauded in Paris, but stirred up an anti-Guitry demonstration in Lyon (TIME, June 7). On its own account, it is worth little fuss of any kind. It is a tribute, redolent of grease paint, to Sacha's famed actor father . Lucien. The son's brittle wit shows to best advantage when he is dishing out impudence, irony and disillusionment. This film suffers from an irony of its own: reverence and honest sentiment do not become M. Sacha Guitry...