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...about as bad as the Harvard text, but there is a nice photo essay on Cambridge which is missing from the Yearbook's evocation of the Harvard world. (Some of the pics are, sorry to say, the same--one ghastly shot of the singer Gary Davis as a dark blob of glup is repeated, an awful mistake...
...collects paper dust, which can botch a printing job. The web offset process is more wasteful of paper than letterpress. And on long offset-press runs, the ink tends to emulsify with the water played on the impression plate and thus spread until the page turns into an unrecognizable blob...
Giving In. He made his reluctance plain. Though Argentina's President personally abhors both Communism and Castro (whose Foreign Minister once called Frondizi a "viscous blob of human excrescences"), he finds it politically expedient, both at home and abroad, to play the neutral. Maneuvering for time, he went before the nation to make an angry speech defending Argentina's-and his own-independence in world affairs. If Frondizi expected an outburst of public support, he did not get it. When the military men backed up their ultimatum by boycotting a presidential state dinner for Belgium's visiting...
...viscous blob of human excrescences...
Astronomers have proposed two cosmogonic theories which are wholly consistent with the spectral observations. The older one assumes a constant diffusion over space of what was originally an exceptionally dense blob of matter. By computing the extent of the red shift at various distances, proponents of this theory have obtained a figure of five billion years as the probable age of the Universe...