Word: appeared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...using laboratory facilities of the Biology and Chemistry Department. It may also have seemed politic to compromise with critics who fear that the Biology and Chemistry Department will lose some of their best men and will suffer for it. In any case, the resulting department does not appear much stronger than the existing Biochemistry committee...
Although the Brooks usually insisted that the local people pay whatever they could, certain acts of generosity appear a little questionable. Some returned Volunteers will raise eye-brows at their distribution of seven cartons of used clothing sent from the States; the trouble with such direct giveaways, as the Brooks found out themselves, is that the demand is inexhaustible. After all the parcels had already been distributed to friends, Rhoda relates, "the crowd at our door swelled to frightening size; complete strangers were coming off the beach to see what all the excitement was about...
...million miles. About four days before Mercury comes closest to the sun, Soter says in the current issue of Sky and Telescope, its increased angular velocity around the sun just matches its rotational rate about its own axis. To an observer on Mercury, the sun at this point would appear to stand still in its east-to-west transit of the skies. Then, as Mercury picked up even more speed, whipped past its point of closest approach to the sun, and began to slow down as it receded farther out into space again, the sun would appear to move backward...
...Histoire du Soldat last week, Seattle Opera Director Glynn Ross got no less a guest star than Stravinsky, who at 84 flew up from Los Angeles to conduct the lyrical fairy tale he composed 50 years ago. In addition, Ross got Saul Steinberg, whose metaphysically satirical cartoons appear in The New Yorker, to design the sets; Actor Basil Rathbone was the narrator, Screen Actor John Gavin the soldier, Ballerina Marina Svetlova the princess, and Dancer Anton Dolin the Devil...
...clearly likes him. Both as Harvard administrator and a part-time Faculty member at Miles, Monro has been the source of many new schemes. Some of these spring from instinct, from a hasty appraisal of the facts of the situation. They seem plausible at first, but on examination appear full of problems. As a result, Monro must retract some and allow others to slide to a slow death. At times, they make him appear foolish. But some of them dowork, and the suggestion of others prompt reactions...