Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This is Military Sciences 1b," the Colonel began. ROTC members had filed in with amazing regularity for a 9 0 clock class. "Promptness is the courtesy of kings," the colonel said. "I guess I'll have to get up ten minuets earlier," the Cliffie thought. The walk from the Radcliffe dorms to Shannon Hall is a long...
...Times Square stunt, set up an elaborate laboratory in the Hotel Astor, poked and pried and quizzed Disk Jockey Peter Tripp for 200 sleepless hours. It will take months to sift the stacks of data they gathered. Tripp gave his verdict the moment he was saved by the clock: "You can't stay awake alone. You need someone there to keep telling you, 'Up, boy, up.' " See MEDICINE, Sleepless in Gotham...
...years of democracy," rumbled Orson Welles in the film The Third Man, "the only thing the Swiss have invented is the cuckoo clock." This gibe was not even correct: a German in the Black Forest invented the cuckoo clock. But it barely ruffled the Swiss, who often appear to think that they, not the Greeks, invented democracy, and that only they understand its proper practice. The cardinal rule of Switzerland's unwritten democratic law is that only men shall vote. In the rest of Europe, only tiny Liechtenstein and Monaco also deny the ballot to women...
...clock: Now, you should start to get hungry or sick or at least tired of the whole thing; go home now--you won't miss anything. There are a couple of Gov. courses, including one on legal theory (Gov. 108) by Mrs. Shklar. Those who studied Czarist Russia previously might find History 156, in Harvard 4, of some interest. Professor Billington discusses the modern period when czars aren't czars but commissars, and a serf is a privileged proletarian...
...clock: Professor Bloembergen gives Applied Physics 296 in Cruft 319; it's a refugee from the Gov. department called The Solid State. Then, of course, if you don't know why Tom Dooley should hang down his head, or what you get for loading sixteen tons, or what's on top of Old Smoky, English 195, Folksong and Balladry, in Emerson A, is just the thing. And if English thought from Burke to Mill happens to be the lone weak spot in your arsenal of knowledge, take History 143 with assistant professor Graubard in Harvard...