Word: cores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everyone knows, said Blackett, the earth has a magnetic field, but no one has figured out why. The magnetism does not come from iron deep underground, because the earth's core is far too hot to be "ferro-magnetic." As early as 1891, physicists guessed that the magnetism might be due to some inherent property of revolving bodies. They could not prove...
...College's General Education Program is, despite the condescension of the Hutchins coterie, an inherently original venture.. Like all pioneer endeavors it must experience trial-and-error evolution. The aim at Harvard is to provide all students "as citizens and heirs of a joint culture . . . a common core of knowledge": the aim is further to do this within the framework of modern needs for specialized training. Skeptics who have doubted that the Report's golden intentions can find effective translation into the College organism and outright ill-wishers who fear "educational tyranny" will unearth only fleeting surface encouragements--little...
...linked Farben to six U.S. corporations and to some 500 others throughout the world, the U.S. charged that "Hitler . . . and Farben found a basis for close collaboration as early as 1932. [Hitler] came to power with generous financial assistance from Farben and . . . Farben's foreign agents formed the core of Nazi intrigue throughout the world. . . . Ostensibly acting only as businessmen, [they] carried on propaganda and espionage activities indispensable to German preparation for and waging of aggressive...
...later statement, in which Downes assured the audience that a music critic could not kill any truly good piece of music, claiming that a composition with vitality would bounce back sooner or later. The combination of these statements forms a wedge into what struck this observer as being the core problem at the Symposium...
John J. Hughes '48, a member of the recent Hasty Pudding cast, four Glee Club members, and four 'Cliffedwollers form the core of the cast.' The play is described by author Ashenhurst as "a satire on college life, centering around the Jubilee and Harvard people...