Word: beta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meetings, moving, laundry salesmen, and even advice from Phi Beta Kappas crowd the first week of the entering student. Just when things get quiet and an easy, country-club-like future seems apparent, the tyro finds his days crowded by the first meeting of classes...
Back in Princeton, he graduated a Phi Beta Kappa and valedictorian. Grandfather had won the argument as to how the turbine was to be used; it was to be used in the law. Foster took a year at the Sorbonne and went to Washington...
...Chemical name: Allopregnane-3 beta, 17 alpha, 21-triol-n, 20-dione. *Which is growing steadily. Newest use: Pediatrician Lawson Wilkins of Johns Hopkins reported last week in Seattle that girls who show marked outward signs of masculinity (pseudo-hermaphrodites) respond magically to small doses of the hormone. They shed facial hair, develop curves in right places, seem to become feminine in every...
...University, where he did little else than sit reading in the library with his hair in his eyes, looking like an emaciated sheep dog. After testing him, the psychology department reported that he had a remarkable memory. Unkempt, unloved and unknown, he was on his way to a Phi Beta Kappa key, perhaps to a life of scholarship...
...John Holtsapple, 63, prominent Columbus galosh manufacturer, died of complications last night at his home, 396 N. Persimmon Blvd." Any attempts by the staff to get wit or originality into the paper usually landed on the spike. The city editor, who began by addressing Thurber as "Author" and "Phi Beta Kappa," came to respect him, but Thurber still sees this Legree in a recurring anxiety dream: "He runs up to my desk with a shoe in his hand and says, 'We've got just ten minutesto get this shoe in the paper.' Boy, do I move...