Word: warming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inter-American Affairs. To make sure he got it, he added a few nonexistent qualifications: two years at Brown, a degree from Stevens Institute of Technology, a big job with a big trucking company. He got the job, and his transport survey for the Colombian government won him a warm note of praise from the Minister of Public Works. After that the U.S. Commerce Department hired Jim at $10,000 a year. He helped on the planning for ECA, lectured before the Armed Forces Industrial College, lent expert advice to the Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy. He did so well...
...chatter stopped in mid-note as the grey-haired man in the tan sport coat walked briskly across the stage to the podium. For a few silent moments his glance flickered over the musicians of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, his shale-blue eyes and handsome, melancholy face warm with affection. When his glance had embraced them all, Charles Munch picked up his baton, smiled and said: "Maintenant, relax." A moment later, Boston's 50-year-old Symphony Hall was rocking joyously with the rehearsal of Hector Berlioz' bounding overture, The Corsair...
Each one of these additions has aided a play which was basically good from the start. Miss George, whose last appearance, was with C. Aubrey Smith in "Spring Again" makes a triumphant return. As the Mother-general in a convent she is warm, intimate and personable. Regardless of whether she is talking, pacing the stage, or merely sitting in on a conversation, the audience is aware of her quiet, gracious presence...
...public school, Stonyhurst College. Earlier teachers had found the boy's passion for nature study so all-absorbing that they had tried to whip it out of him. "But," said the Squire, the "bright colors in crockeryware are made permanent by the action of fire [and so] the warm application of the birch rod did but . . . render my ruling passion more distinct and clear...
...doctor told her to go through it again only correcting her errors this time. "How many of us do not wish we could re-enact something in the past and do it right? Psychodrama gives that opportunity. You see, we started out this afternoon with caricature and now we warm up and have some very tragic psychological problems presented...