Word: bunch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Growing these fattened electrons is no easy job. They are shot into the accelerator's vacuum-ring in bunches of about 100 billion, already moving at close to the speed of light and carrying 25 million electron-volts of energy. If left to their own devices, they would move in straight lines, soon hitting the ring's outside wall. But the ring is surrounded by magnets whose power can be varied accurately. When each bunch of electrons enters, the magnetism is just strong enough to make them move in a circle, keeping away from the ring...
...heart-warming thing about the game was the fact that a bunch of regular fellows--hard working students like you and me--was able to play and beat hard-core professionals. In view of the fact that an overwhelming percentage of the Council players were Canadians with doubtful amateur standing, and despite the fact that the game extended the CRIMSON's schedule so as to interfere with "normal" study requirements, and considering that the Council's approach to athletics is "commercialized" as witnessed by its heavy recruiting in recent elections, the CRIMSON did remarkably well...
Your review, which comprehensively skimmed the subject from Auden to Zen (though how come no Stanley Kunitz, Pulitzer Prize Poet of 1959 and best of the bunch?) moves me to the muse. To all poets, published and unpublished (or nine-tenths of the human race...
...long as the House System is no more than a bunch of colorless names and colorful cupolas it deserves a reaction of apathy, if not disdain. But once a Committee looks beyond the obvious architectural and spiritual separateness of the dormitories and finds functions that answer a specific need, the House can develop a valid ralson-d'etre, and command respect, if not gung-ho enthusiasm. Such needs that we feel we have partially met are those of increased contact with older members of the academic community, especially women in graduate school and the Institute; the purely practical function...
...lies in the fact that a massive transformation of the college (such as President Bunting's house system is likely to prove) may, if it moves too quickly, and is not quite understood, engender a mild form of anomie in the student community. At the moment, an essentially conservative bunch of students could use the benefits of direct confrontation with a strong Administration before the bureaucratic wheels begin to roll...