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Vocabulary Builder. Since Caltech is dedicated to science and engineering, it is only natural that its laboratories should outnumber classrooms about five to one. And out of these laboratories have come some major revolutions in knowledge. The terms that Caltech has made important -cosmic ray, Badger's rule, alpha helix, Neurospora, positron, meson and mumeson-may not be exactly household words, but they have become standard parts of science's vocabulary...
With about half a mile to go, Crimson stroke Platt raised the beat to 34 and the prspect of overtaking Wisconsin, still less than a length ahead, improved as Badger number four oar Lou Uehling caught a crab. He recovered well, however, and the stability of his beat was little affected...
...then, word of the Times exclusive was racing around Washington. Newsmen began to badger their own sources, and copies of the report were leaking fast. Knowland and New Hampshire's Senator Styles Bridges, who were lunching that day with Secretary of State Dulles, angrily reported the uproar to him. As a result, Dulles' office told reporters after lunch that copies of the Yalta record and background briefings would be released to the entire press later in the afternoon...
...Socialism to hide the face of an agent of the bourgeoisie. He hoodwinks the British people, hinders the revolution of the British working man, and is in fact working in the interests of the British capitalists. He, with Mr. [Clement] Attlee, is just another one of the sly badger gang...
Thoush tired, the varsity got a good run on the shell over this last quarter mile and raised the beat to 36, just enough to withstand a high-stroking Badger spurt. The two crews crossed the finish line half a length apart before hundreds of coeds jammed on sorority docks which jut into the lake...