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...well established, Dr. Hafstad admitted, that the earth contains a lot of uranium and that uranium contains a lot of energy. Theoretically, one pound of fissionable uranium could do the work of 360,000 gallons of gasoline. But no one should be led astray by such figures, Dr. Hafstad warned. Getting practical and tractable energy out of uranium is an extremely difficult, dangerous and expensive business...
...Greene is concerned with keeping interdepartmental mail flowing among the sub-stations, and fending off intruders who have severe misconceptions about the function of his service. At the beginning of each school year, curious freshmen keep popping in to find out why their monthly checks go astray and why they keep getting letters addressed to people in Eliot House. All Greene can do is refer them to the Information Office in Weld Hall, and offer to sell them some stamps. He does about $50 worth of stamp business each week, mostly in the three-cent variety...
...chorus--Glee Club and Choral Society--has never done more justice to music than in "For unto us a Child is born," "His yoke is easy," and on the word "astray" from "All we like sheep." Some of the ordered enthusiasm put into the Hallelujah might be applied to "Since by man came death...
...course this Business School education logic sometimes goes astray, because teaching a young man to be an executive before his time can occasionally lead to trouble. "We often find a good bright boy, say from Middle-bury, more satisfactory," a company personnel man once reported. "These Harvard men walk in here and expect a desk twice as long as mine and with half a dozen push buttons...
...charge you that if the defendants did no more than pur sue peaceful studies and discussions or teaching and advocacy in the realm of ideas you must acquit them . . . Do not be led astray by talk about thought control, or putting books on trial. No such issues are before you here. "But no one could suppose nor is it the law that any person has an absolute and unbridled right to say or to write and to publish whatever he chooses under any and all circumstances...