Word: across
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last Saturday's football game with Bucknell the yawning rows of seats across the field and in the bowl end of the Stadium were more than obvious to anyone sitting on the Harvard side. The attendance at the game, in fact, totalled only 9,000. At the same time, in New Haven, Yale's much larger "Bowl" was comfortably filled for a game with Brown that held only slightly more interest. The difference: Yale invites Connecticut Boy Scouts, church youth groups, and miscellaneous youngsters' organizations to attend this early season event at a minimum rate, charging twenty-five cents apiece...
...each student know how his senators voted on the Kennedy-Clark amendment? Does each student's home town realize the implications of a loyalty oath? Would home town newspapers print articles by Harvard students? Where is the Harvard Liberal Union? What connections do they have with the liberal unions across the country? Where is the Student Council? How do the student councils and newspapers in other colleges feel? Where are letters to congressmen? Where is the dedicated fervor and concrete action? Or is not this issue really worth the effort...
...Australia; Mayaro and Ilheus in South and Central America; dengue in India and the West Indies; Chikungunya in Africa; Omsk hemorrhagic fever in Russia. Only a few of the forms circulate widely, even fewer represent great danger to human life. The virulent Japanese "B" variety has been spread across Asia by migrating herons, sometimes affects thousands in a summer. Some 2,800 died in Japan and Korea last year; another epidemic this summer has killed 500 in Korea alone...
Publish or Perish. What is true of Oklahoma can also be said of university presses across the U.S. No longer content with murky monographs on the mud turtle, or the academic jargon of cloistered professors, the presses have become favorites of U.S. readers. This year the 50 members of the Association of American University Presses will produce 1,300 new books on subjects ranging from art to zoology. In their own field-adult, hardcover nonfiction-universities will account for one out of every four original books in the U.S. and sell them for about $14 million, more than double their...
...began to write orders. Hertz Rent-A-Car signed up for 3,000. Chicago Dealer Zollie Frank wanted 10,000, but Chevy turned him down to spread the supply. St. Louis Dealer Gene Jantzen has a unique ringside seat in the small-car derby; his showroom is right across from a Chevy assembly plant. Says he: "People toured that plant and peeked through the knotholes at the Corvair. Some even climbed atop their cars outside the plant to get a look. Then they came over to our place and ordered a Corvair." So far, Chevy has totted...