Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Others of the crew take notes on recalling details like yawning and table-tapping that can be seen around the conference table. When the experiment is over, the investigators draw up a "profile" of their guinea-pig meeting...
...each department, men are interested in the temperatures of things they can't touch, Professor Donald H. Menzel wants to explain the temperature of the corona, a collar of thin gas around the sun. Professor Louis C. Graton wants to find the temperature of geyser holes...
Every year along about that time, a Dilemma creeps up stealthily on members of the senior class and suddenly gooses them. This dilemma generally goes under the title of Whether Or Not To Stick Around For Graduation, but it isn't a true dilemma, for the odds are far from even. There aren't many seniors, for example, who conceive a violent hatred for Graduation; and there aren't many seniors who manage to find jobs that start before June 23. In short, most seniors would not only like to get their diplomas in person, but they are able...
...glory. This is a preposterous state of affairs. For one thing, it leads the outside world to suspect that a large body of the class gives way to sloth. Admittedly, a senior who plans to see his four years through to the end is going to have to hustle around a little getting tickets and hotel reservations for his relatives. Too, the whole affair isn't exactly for free...
Demonstrators carrying signs blasting the Sullivan Bill paraded around the State House before the Senate convened...