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...wore a fragment of a vase full of spreading greenery. She looked like Maud who had finally come into the garden and been left there too long. The lady was all clay, and the creation of Denmark's Bjorn Wiinblad (rhymes with keen blot), one of the brightest ceramists in the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Every Day Is Saturday | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...apparent difference in the minds of university administrators between the firing of a tenured professor for citing the Fifth Amendment and the hiring or rehiring of a non-tenured man who has used the Amendment, worries many faculty members. It now appears to be the main blot on an otherwise admirable record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Faculty Commends Officer's Courage, Patience | 9/29/1954 | See Source »

...apparent difference in the minds of university administrators between the firing of a tenured professor for citing the Fifth Amendment and the hiring or rehiring of a non-tenured man who has used the Amendment, worries many-faculty members. It now appears to be the main blot on an otherwise admirable record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Faculty Commends Officers' Courage, Patience | 6/17/1954 | See Source »

...garnered $3,000, most of which was earmarked for needed restoration. More serious repairs, particularly a new tiled roof, are planned. Often during Cambridge's ample rains, rivulets of water trickle down the rough, brick walls, and gathering in pools on the floor of the Great Hall, remind Blot and Jester that the Lampoon needs renovation once again...

Author: By Dennis E. Brown, | Title: Flemish Birdhouse | 2/20/1954 | See Source »

Volcanos, enthusiastically cited by more imaginative geologists as the cause of glaciers, can actually produce enough dust to blot out much of the sun's radiant heat. Krakatoa's ash, sent sky high in 1833, cut 10 percent of France's sunlight for three years. But reductions in radiant energy cool the equator more than the poles, cutting temperature differences which create storms. Only an increase of the sun's general heating power will yield more snow, the sole food of glaciers. Yet if the sun's heat increases too much, the glaciers will melt...

Author: By Robert A. Fish, | Title: Climatic Change | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

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