Word: core
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like most other college coaches, the Crimson's track and cross country leader, Jaakko Mikkola, has a special fondness for Freshmen. "We need good Freshman runners badly," he says, "because they are the core of our future Varsities--successful Freshman teams mean successful Varsities and vice versa...
...three weeks, he was silent. His police arrested two pro-Stalin comrades. Then he reveals the core of his heresy-patriotism...
Last week pursuing Nationalists found Chen Yi waiting for them on a battlefield of his own choosing. Chen's 100,000 Red troops were ranged along a 35-mile stretch of Honan basin land below the Lunghai railroad. The core of Chen's force was made up of veterans of his slashing campaigns in Shantung province. These tough regulars were fleshed out with elements from the army of one-eyed Communist General Liu Po-cheng, and local Red guerrilla bands...
...center of the star, releasing enormous energy. The reaction may spread in a short time through most of the mass of the star. The energy released is enough to blow off the star's outer layer. All that remains, according to this theory, is a small, dense core of neutrons and a vast shell of flaming gas that burns itself out in a few months of splendor...
...power of Pendle Hill is not to be found primarily in its activities, but in the spirit that informs them. This spirit, unobtrusive but pervading, is Quakerism. Quakerism is neither Protestant nor Catholic, but a third type of Christianity in which rationalism and mysticism are at one. At the core of its practice is the belief in the Inner Light, or "that of God in every...