Word: adults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kelly & Jelly. To juvenile minstrels, adult foibles are fit for parodies that spread with lightning speed. During the crisis over King Edward VIII's abdication in 1936, when censorship hushed grownups, English children everywhere blithely chanted: "Hark, the Herald Angels sing,/ Mrs. Simpson's pinched our King...
...subject from cider to Columbus. He stirred the school to start a scholarly magazine, to ponder a "book of the year," e.g., The Lonely Crowd; Science, Magic and Religion. He got Colby to give TV courses for credit to rural viewers, made the school a summer center for adult education (2,000 students last year...
...that sort of thing again," Chairman Oren Harris said: "I think you have a great future ahead of you. God bless you." Only New York's Republican Steven B. Derounian (Nassau County) shattered the love feast. "I don't think," he said coldly, "that an adult of your intelligence ought to be commended for telling the truth...
...check his theory. Professor Smith experimented on black carpenter ants, which are easy to collect in quantity. Hibernating adult ants proved to have as much as 10% glycerol in their bodies, but when the ants were gradually warmed up and became active, all of it disappeared. Chilling the ants for a few days at a temperature just above the freezing point restored the glycerol again. Ants of the same species found in warmer Maryland had no glycerol in them. But when taken to Minnesota, they did as Minnesota ants do, secreting their personal antifreeze against the cold...
Felt said that the main obstacle blocking any such program is the limitation set on the number of free tickets by Ivy League contract. The HAA already makes complimentary passes available to many adult groups, such as officials of Cambridge, Boston, and the State House...