Word: burrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave new life to the dated charm of the J. M. Barrie play. As Maggie Wylie, the homely but wise and witty Scottish lass who is the real reason behind her bartered bridegroom's success, Ireland's Siobhan (pronounced Shi-vawn) McKenna, 35, was a trim, burr-voiced delight...
...Behrman '16, noted author and playwright, will visit Kirkland House sometime in the Spring term, Robert M. O'Clair '32, Allston Burr Senior Tutor, affirmed last night...
Last spring's Memorial Church controversy stemmed more from a general feeling that "a false direction" was being adopted by the Pusey administration than from concern over specific issues, Franklin L. Ford, professor of History and Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Lowell House, told the Congregational-Presbyterian Youth Fellowship last night...
...Allston Burr Senior Tutors view the policy change as a return to the norm. "It's the plan we've used except for last year," said Robert M. O'Clair, Senior Tutor of Kirkland House, "And it's pretty sensible for the most part. One of the points of the new House system is to make rooms available that everybody can live...
...Cherenkov radiation remained a tantalizing mystery until three years later. Two other Soviet physicists, Ilya M. Frank and his senior, Igor Tamm (who studied at Edinburgh and speaks English with a Scottish burr), became interested, worked out a strange but correct theory. When gamma rays pass through water, they hit electrons, and the impact bumps the electrons up to high velocities. The electrons do not move faster than light in a vacuum (186,000 m.p.sec., the Einsteinian speed limit of the universe), but they do move faster than light in water, 140,000 m.p.sec. For exceeding the local speed limit...