Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explaining the purpose of the dance, John T. Hazel '51, who has been appointed chairman of the dance committee, said that the Key and worked with Bingham to "break up the monotony of the spring term...
...20th Century will see the decline of Protestantism in America. But if church men and women are sobered by the judgments that have fallen on our world and the worse catastrophes that threaten to descend, if they are moved by the promise of new light yet to break forth from God's word and by the love which will not let us go, then 1950 will see a momentous turning point in Christian history...
...wool, the long molecules are connected by "disulphide cross-linkages." These the chemists replaced by "bis-thioether cross-linkages." The artificial links are as strong mechanically as the natural ones, so the wool is as strong. The links are also stronger chemically, and the moths' digestive juices cannot break them down. Moth larvae put on a diet of modified wool quickly starve to death, even though a few nutritious food stains are added. Moncrieff predicts that when all wool is modified in this way, clothes moths will have to return to their primitive diet...
...world is filled with archaic objects−mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out of rather than places to enter...
Even in the years after the Civil War, she continues, "the South's conscience hurt; always there were doubts and scruples." Had the South been able to make a clean break with its past, the evil might have been exorcised. But gnawed by memories of its defeat and provoked by harsh meddlers from the North, the South gradually transformed "the Negro question" into a fanatical folk bias, coloring its segregated religion, its sex attitudes, its every moment in life...