Word: balloon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lying covered with newspapers in a handcart. The shrewdest, Yid, 13, a pickpocket, bends over her. "She is nearly going," he says to seven-year-old Curls. "Look at her belly. I know, from camp. You can die from a shrink belly or you can die from a balloon belly...
Harvard's track forces failed to deflate Army's wartime invincibility balloon Saturday at the Point, but their 52-point accumulation undoubtedly had Ivy coaches reaching for the aspirin. Before the meet, confusion resulted when the Crimson learned that fourth place was to be counted. The contract called for a first, second, third scoring plan, and Coach Mikkola had organized his team accordingly...
President Conant's annual report for 1946 may be a trial balloon sent up to test public reaction to federal aid for the private colleges. It has been construed as the first word of surrender sent up from the proud fortress of the endowed colleges, calling for outside aid in the training of future generations of professional men. Harvard's president demonstrates forthright honesty when he affirms that the ranks of the professions must be filled with a greater cross-section of America's intellectual wealth. If the true social views of education is to be instilled in the citadel...
...bosses of Big Labor had evidently been studying the signs. They had read the election returns and had seen what happened to John L. Lewis. They had sent up a trial balloon (the Nathan report) for higher wages without higher prices, and seen it riddled with buckshot by industry's sharpshooters...
...small group of physicists gathered in the squash court for the final test. Partly shrouded in balloon cloth,* the pile squatted black and menacing. Within it, all knew or hoped, a monstrous giant sat chained. Control rods plated with cadmium (which readily absorbs neutrons) had been thrust into holes in the graphite. When the control rods were removed, Fermi had calculated, the chain reaction would start spontaneously, and the giant would be free...