Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This idea drew support from John J. Conway, Master of Leverett House, who said the suggestion "at first glance has most interesting possibilities." Conway said the system would cut down paid labor behind the steam tables, an item he thought took a big chunk from the Dining Halls' budget...
...From beneath brows that jut at least an inch beyond pale blue eyes, he stares intensely at a small plaster shape held in his left hand. The right hand, thick-wristed and broad, with straight fingers that are surgically muscular, holds a small scalpel. In a few minutes, the chunk of thumb-shaped plaster takes on form...
Mineral Deposit. In Dayton, after paying $15 for a C.O.D. package marked "fragile," Mrs. Dorothea Johnson found it contained a 10-lb. chunk of cement...
Even when plutonium is stored in a carefully designed container, workers live close to catastrophe. Each small chunk of plutonium must be kept a respectful distance from the others, lest they combine to form the critical mass that sets off an atomic reaction. Even a human body in the wrong place can reflect enough neutrons into a chunk of plutonium to set off a chain reaction that could kill everyone in the lab with a blast of radiation...
...third chunk of Adams House scholarship is a very readable consideration of factors in the success of Mormonism. Bryce Nelson concludes that Mormon unity, not merely as a sect, but as a people, led to their efflorescence in Utah's Zion and throughout the United States. The analogy with the Jewish people is drawn several times and points of comparison are emphasized. Nelson demonstrates that the Mormons have successfully preserved two identities--the ethnic-religious one of the Latter-day Saints, and the wider one of participation in American culture...