Word: ast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...downtown Seattle, tickets for the big game were selling for $40 on the black market. When 12,000 people jammed into the University of Washington's Pavilion ast week, they expected to see fireworks. It was the big show of 1949's basketball season, the N.C.A.A. tournament final beween powerful Kentucky and the aggravating, defense-minded Oklahoma Aggies. What the crowd saw was a duel in coaching strategy with overtones of a championship chess match. Kentucky, which specializes in brisk, aggressive basketball, deliberately slowed down to the Aggies' own "slow death" pace. So artis-ically didx Kentucky...
...ast week's Science magazine, Dr. Alber Wolfson of Northwestern University advances his explanation: that they are led astray by the earth's fickle geology. According to a fairly well established theory, says Dr. Wolfson, the continents were once bunched together in two main masses: "Laurasia" (North America and Eurasia) and "Gondwana" (South America, Africa, Antarctica, Australia), which were separated only by shallow seas (see map). During the Cretaceous period, 60 million years ago, both masses broke up and drifted slowly apart, their light granitic rocks floating on the heavy, plastic basalt that underlies both the oceans...
...Federation's president, Raymond J. Ast, is an elementary-school principal and a past commander of the county American Legion. He distilled the teachers' reluctance into an oddly unmilitant strike slogan: "Remember the dignity of our profession...
Appointment of Major Jerome L. Rosengard, A.U.S., as Special Associate in Military Medicine at the Harvard Medical School was announced yesterday by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Major Rosengard, who commands Company D of the AST unit at the Medical School, is in charge of instruction in all phases of military medicine to the Army medical students...
Guests of honor at this final party for fifth year men will include Dean Bur '16, and Dr. Worth Hale of the Medical School; Colonel F. S. Purdon, USA, Commandant of AST at Harvard; and Major Jerome Rosengard, USA, commanding officer of the Medical School AST...