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...added that one of the important effects of the collection will be to clear up the confusion which now exists as to the order in which Miss Dickinson's poems were written. A biography will probably be possible in three or four years, once a clear chronological pattern of her poetry-and thus of her emotional development-has been established...
...three of his relatives had shipped out of Port-of-Spain last month bound for Venezuela with a $3,000 cargo of cloth and had never been seen again. The police raided the home of Singh's wife and son, found some silk and tweeds of the same pattern as those bought by the missing Venezuelans. They also found the outboard motor and fishing equipment of one of the first boats to disappear...
Since then, Bobby's life has taken on a busy pattern. At 7 each morning, he is awake, poring over chemistry books until breakfast. At lunch recess, he runs down to his laboratory to see how his latest experiments are coming (he is now making photographs of radioactive uranium acetate). After dinner he goes back to his laboratory again: "And if it's an important experiment I stay down there a real long time...
...long thought that earthquakes are caused by a sudden release of strain (distortion) in the earth's crust. Dr. Benioff studied the records of all major earthquakes since 1904 and made a chart of their "strain-rebound" characteristics. Somewhat to his surprise, the chart made a regular, sawtooth pattern, with the teeth getting smaller and lower as the diagram approached...
Adam and Evalyn (Rank; Universal-International) is a British movie cut to an old Hollywood pattern-not a very good pattern by the standards of moviemaking on either side of the Atlantic. A dashing young society gambler (Stewart Granger) promises a dying buddy to take his daughter out of an orphanage and give her a home. The girl (Jean Simmons) is an ungainly waif who takes Granger for her father. He finally sets her straight and packs her off to a Swiss finishing school, which returns her to him as a glamorous dish. She consents to marry...