Word: contained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entries in Thayer. Matthews, and Weld contain the most men per entry. Every year some one of the seven entries in the three halls is notorious, as far as the dean's office is concerned. The grades of men in the entry are probably no lower than average, but students have a good time on football weekends and occasionally overturn a fire-extinguisher or engage in pinpoint bombing out of the window...
...summary, compiled from late Associated Press wire reports, will appear daily on the front page and will contain accounts of the day's top news events, digested for quick break-fast-table reading...
...would be, say," he wrote, "if a church were located closer at hand. Perhaps in a grove of hemlocl where the cleared land descends toward the blue channel water; somewhere, wher the kindly Sunday-school teacher would not have so far to go . . . Last night th Farmer [Dirks] could contain himself m longer. He visited Mr. Wheeler, who said 'If a fund was started to build a small church, I certainly wouldn't oppose it But remember ours is a small community Just now, it takes all the Sunday collection to run the children...
...land where the orchids grow wild, the men have grown tame, but collecting birds' nests still requires skill and daring. Slithering over masses of cockroaches, the natives enter bat-infested limestone caves. On rattan ladders, they climb 100 feet or so to gather the nests of swiftlets. These contain the birds' hardened saliva, basic ingredient of bird's-nest soup. The $100,000-a-year take from this export (to China) does its bit to pull British North Borneo out of the soup economically...
...great chemists' drive to synthesize cortisone, some researchers start at the beginning with simple ingredients (TIME, May 7), others are trying to make the magic drug out of complex vegetable substances, which contain the building blocks of cortisone...