Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Yorkers had heard London's loud applause for Christopher Fry last season. They were curious about him and prepared to be critical. Last spring, a few of them had seen his A Phoenix Too Frequent (whose wry brilliance had been dulled by a second-rate production). This season, a lot more of them will see a lot more of him. In addition to The Lady, Broadway will see Fry's translation of Jean Anouilh's charming French fairy-tale farce, Ring Round the Moon, which opens next week, and some time soon Sir Laurence Olivier will present...
Though Hopkins scientists are not always polished performers (Poole once had to give a physicist a sharp kick in the shins to keep him within his time limit), Review no longer has much trouble persuading them to appear. By last week, they were receiving fan letters at the rate of 875 a week, fewer than Berle (who doesn't bother to count them anymore), but enough to suggest that there is a TV audience for something besides comics...
...size" depend on the amount of matter within it. If more matter were added, space would have to stretch, carrying the galaxies with it. Why not, asked Bondi and Gold, figure out how much matter would have to be added to make the galaxies recede at the observed rate? The answer, dragged from thickets of mathematics, came out very simple. One atom of hydrogen, they calculated, must be added to each quart of space every billion years...
Fred Ravreby yesterday returned to the starting offensive right end position, Coach Lloyd Jordan reported following the football squad's closed practice session. He will team with sophomore Paul Crowley, with Dike Hyde and Henry Rate going defensively...
...admiration was mutual: only ten weeks after they had met, Johnson assured the entranced Boswell that he knew not one man he could rate above him. Reaching for fashionable English understatement, the young Scot told his diary that "this was very high...