Word: trick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week it looked as though the problem of sulfa poisoning was solved. Dr. Perrin Long of Johns Hopkins reported a new, innocuous relative of sulfanilamide: sulfadiazine. A compound of sulfanilamide and part of vitamin B, the new drug, which is swallowed with water or injected, turns the same trick sulfanilamide does, plays no tricks on the patient...
...third Quadrangular League game in a row the Varsity hockey team came off the ice a one-goal loser. Dartmouth's Indians turned the trick Saturday night at Hanover by piling up an imposing 3 to 0 lead and then coasting in victorious by a count...
...ragtime of the twenties, but it is a thoroughly enjoyable piece of music as well. It starts out with a pompous Handelian little theme, which is quickly broken down, so my informant says, into a vein of jocosity, busy chattering strings, and short reiterated little figures, (a trick used very successfully by Strawinsky in his recent symphony), And throughout the work there is a good deal of musical wisecracking--banal tunes, whizzing themes, sound effects, changes in mood and tempo, all contributing to a decidedly comic effect. It, and the Handel, Bach and Grandjany concertos; the organ, harp, string orchestra...
...present team also has suffered one loss. But it took a hard-pressed Tufts Junior Varsity to turn the trick, 34-32, on December 13, which marked the end of the first week of play for the Freshmen. Since then, the Stahleymen have scored five consecutive triumphs...
...most effective setting, a chill, ominous picture of dawn in the park, which is never matched by anything that occurs on the stage. Red-haired Nancy Coleman is a lovely Liberty, especially in the cool blue satin nightgown of her sickroom period. John Beal manages quite a trick in playing Tom Smith without too strong a suggestion of Eagle Scoutism. Neither manages to breathe life into Mr. Barry's symbolism...