Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...recording, proved him a man of culture, if no great originality. Said Moon Trail: "Learning is living. . . . Every soul is a brick in the mosaic of the universe. If one were lost the universe would fall." In pursuit of the psychic chums of Moon Trail, and determined to make more of the loquacious defunct talk, Spiritualist Pressing last September corralled another batch of earnest mediums, went to the Buffalo, N. Y. offices of Transtudio Corp., a commercial radio-transcription studio. A medium soon got through to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. While sympathetic listeners urged him on by exclaiming...
...make poisonous snakes safe to handle, Dr. Raymond L Ditmars, curator of mammals and reptiles at the Bronx Zoo, put them in refrigerators, chilled them into docility...
...machine"-a 20th-century model of the rack. The pins are connected on both sides to a kind of caliper and the leg is gently stretched until the two broken ends snap into place. While a surgeon "reduces" the fracture, his assistant watches the bone through a fluoroscope to make sure the ends are fitted. The leg stays in the machine...
...field, has a simple formula for winning games: "Leave nothing to chance." Cornell's remarkable timing, brilliant deception and smooth execution of assignments are the result of intelligence but also of drill. With the meticulousness of a scientist, Snavely has moving pictures taken of every move his players make. He spends the first three days of each week poring over slow-motion pictures of the previous Saturday's game, sends his players long letters analyzing every play, pointing out each one's errors, how they can be avoided. Cornell hired Snavely four years ago mainly because...
...chief, Winston Churchill, who was among those who refused to support Chamberlain's policy, Baxter wrote Maclean's: "It may seem a small thing for a group of men to refuse to support their leader. Actually it is one of the crudest decisions that a politician must make. ... It is against the enthusiasms and affection which come to men who have played on the same team. . . ." He added proudly: "I . . . voted for my leader [Chamberlain...