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...devoted to research, theorizing and the writing of over 20 books, including On the Blood Pressure in Surgery, The Fallacy of the German State Philosophy, Man, an Adaptive Mechanism, The Phenomena of Life. He studied the organs of man and of animals from snails to race horses in his search for the secret of living energy. Many of the animals he collected himself on hunting trips, from Hudson Bay (where he bagged a white whale) to Africa (where, when he was 72, he bagged a seven-ton elephant). Each animal was promptly dissected, its "energy-controlling organs"-heart, thyroid, brain...
...whose scholastic odyssey can be traced from Shanghal University to a B.A. degree at Michigan and then to Harvard last September in search of an M.A. under the Economics Department, explained this Cooperative movement in terms which were a reminder of his special field, labor problems...
...Suite 354, under the agile direction of George S. Kaufman, troop susceptible generals, admirals and rubber czars, footsore strangers in search of a bed, snooty wives in search of their husbands, harassed hotel managers in quest of a settlement, marines, FBI men, portly women judges and a bayoneted lady sniper from the Soviet Embassy. Every time one of the hostesses heads for the altar, yet another face appears with bad news. But the three girls snag their prey at last, and Washington subsides into routine pandemonium...
...distance, the rumblings signifying the approach of a similar storm can be heard today. Under like circumstances, we may be faced with the battle which President Lowell fought and won. Profitting by his example, and aided by his victory, may we, too, take up the cause of "an unfettered search for truth," and defend that ideal against the attacks of those who cry for a vague "Americanism" at the expense of any other ideas or way of life...
Emory S. ("Red") Wages Jr., the pudgy genial Georgian who regaled the squadron's junior officers with tales of his amours, went out on a search one day, tapped out a last message about low gas, and went in. Oran ("Fig") Newton Jr., who had animal nicknames for most of the boys, such as Al Dog for Wright and Red Bird for Wages, was shot out of a dive by A.A. That was all: two pilots. Four enlisted men are missing...