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Marshall shook hands all around, chatted a bit, thanked T.V. for his basket of Formosan shaddock and pomelo (akin to grapefruit), urged everyone not to wait in the chill damp outdoors. For a few moments he stood alone by the ramp; he seemed a trifle impatient because the Gimo and Madame were late...
...best seats in the Garden were empty, Harvard fans witnessed the play form directly behind one of the baskets or in small groups mixed in with the rafters and lighting fixtures. If Harvard athletics is to gain local support without incurring the wrath of its best fans, some plan akin to the cheering-section arrangement should be worked out. A single block of seats, located along the side of the court and stretching from the floor to the upper sections would satisfy both spectators and Garden officials. The present scale of prices could be continued and students could enjoy...
Nuclear chain reactions, explosive or otherwise, produce four types of destructive radiation: 1) alpha rays (streams of high-speed helium nuclei;; 2) beta rays (beams of electrons); 3) gamma rays or X rays (high-frequency electromagnetic waves akin to light); 4) neutrons (subatomic particles with no electric charge...
...apparent that something akin to the corn-hog ratio extends through our whole economic life, and that when we talk prices we are really talking exchange values. Thus, although a ton of steel is selling at its highest peacetime price in two decades, it is exchanging for the smallest quantity of goods and services...
...wartime. These memories, which are my life-for we possess nothing certainly except the past-were always with me. . . . These memories are the memorials and pledges of the vital hours of a lifetime. These hours of afflatus in the human spirit, the springs of art, are, in their mystery, akin to the epochs of history, when a race which for centuries has lived content, unknown, behind its own frontiers, digging, eating, sleeping, begetting, doing what was requisite for survival and nothing else, will, for a generation or two, stupefy the world; commit all manner of crimes, perhaps; follow the wildest...