Word: birching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University will apparently confer one of 11 prestigious honorary degrees at tomorrow's Commencement exercises on Francis Birch '24, a retired Harvard geologist...
...Birch, one of the nation's foremost geo-physicists, yesterday abided by the long standing Harvard tradition of keeping the names of honorary-degree recipients a secret until the moment they are called to receive their diplomas...
...detective fiction was still mired and moored in the melodramatic. Even at the turn of the century, detective books tended to involve a lot of heaving bodices, bloody hands and guilt that showed on people's faces like stigmata. There was lots of madness too, with birch trees whispering in the glens, repeating endlessly the names of hidden killers. All in all, it didn't have a hell of a lot to do with the era of the machine gun, of the celebrity poisonings, of the union-busting towns in the West that were run for and by thugs. Lead...
...school with other teachers, the district's superintendent warned, as he later wrote in a memo, that "it would be extremely dangerous to engage in any discussion that might seem contrary to the generally understood political position of the institution." Later, Pastor LaHaye helpfully sent along John Birch Society materials for Barton to study. Barton was also criticized for hiring two Catholics to work at Christian High. After reviewing the record, current School Superintendent Alex Lackey said Barton's dismissal was based "solely on his inadequacies as an administrator...
...flotation. A few of them are still kicking around inside the great, hollow fuselage. The outside of the Goose is a beautiful white, though it was aluminum colored when it flew. The ribbing inside looks like metal, but it is in fact neither metal nor spruce but laminated birch stuck together with glue. Everything is enormously outsize. At their thickest point the interior of the wings is 11 ft. high. A big man can walk out easily inside the wings to inspect the eight 28-cylinder Pratt & Whitney engines, the largest radial engines ever built. For that matter...