Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teams at Harvard are not recruited. They are legitimate members of the student body. Sometimes they commit the awful crime of playing below the level of Australian tennis and Pakistanian squash--but we still consider our activities moderately worthwhile. Some people even like to watch. Looking objectively at football, I personally submit the suggestion that captain Pete Hart, who I am told began at 165 pounds and worked like a dog to build himself up to become a regular, then captain--this boy got as much or more out of football at Harvard than any paid athlete anywhere anytime...
Economist McMahon, an Australian-born fellow of Oxford's Magdalen College, identifies three common and conflicting views of the U.S. economy...
...thesis on the origin of genders, worked two years before he found that a student at Heidelberg had long since done the subject with unimprovable thoroughness. "I mouth the strange syllables of ten forgotten languages, letting my spirits fail, my youth pass," he youthfully wrote. Then a roommate, Australian Bacteriologist Hugh Ward, introduced John Enders to Hans Zinsser, Harvard University's professor of bacteriology and immunology, and one of the great fertilizing minds of his era (Rats, Lice and History for the layman. Infection and Resistance for the profession). Enders was then 30. "A man of superlative energy," Enders...
Australia's Patrick White, while still a lamb in the field of letters, was unfortunately carried away by a big bad Woolf named Virginia. He still listens with the Bloomsbury ear, speaks in the Bloomsbury accent-broadened by a slight Australian snarl. In Britain, where Woolf's Bloomsbury is still held dear as well as precious, critics say he listens acutely and speaks with distinction. They have greeted all five of his novels (e.g., Voss, The Tree of Man) with little civil cries of educated pleasure. U.S. reviewers have been somewhat less impressed, and this turbid allegory will...
Catching the meteoric dust particles on their way down from space was a far more difficult job. In 1958-59, Bowen got Australian air force jets to carry dust-collecting apparatus up as high as 45,000 ft. There they found plenty of dust, but higher flights were needed for rigid proof that the high-altitude dust had not merely been blown aloft from the surface of the earth...