Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them crossing over the aisles to avoid getting Communion from me. I can understand that. To have a priest drum into you for 40 years that only he can give the Communion Host and then to see stupid Drummond up there-it cuts to the very core of people's faith...
...Boston galleries. The auction of E.S. Curtis's photographs of American Indians, at Sotheby Parke-Bennett in New York, demonstrated what expensive collector's items these sepia portraits of a vanished Indian have become. Boston galleries who bagged one or two of these trophies have made the pictures the core of exhibits...
...scores of Harvard students in recent years on Part 1 of the National Medical Board Examination, a standardized test that measures basic scientific knowledge, as the most obvious evidence of Harvard's slipping standards. To attribute this decline to the Medical School's adoption five years ago of a "core curriculum" that does not emphasize the anatomy and pharmacology required for the exam--a change which affected the performance of all students and has since been abandoned--is a reasonable assumption. But to attribute a supposed lowering of standards at the school to the increased number of minority students admitted...
Dubbed LAGEOS, for laser geody-namic satellite, the new satellite consists of an aluminum shell dimpled with 426 so-called cube-corner prism reflectors. Each of the prisms reflects directly to the source a laser beam striking it from any angle. Inside the sphere is a solid brass core, which contributes most of the 903-Ib. satellite's weight. Because it is so small yet has so much mass, LAGEOS will not be much affected by any traces of the earth's atmosphere, particles in the solar wind, or variations in the earth's gravity field...
During the final days of filming, Fellini hunched against a Mitchell camera, chewing on the ball of his fist as if it were an apple core. He was watching two young actresses rehearse a scene that was not going well. In Italy, the sound track of a film is dubbed in later, so Fellini can direct like a latter-day D.W. Griffith, instructing as the camera rolls: "Move toward me, Olimpia. Pause. Take a deep breath. Look down at your hands. Bravar Actress Olimpia Carlisi is not acting to the camera, but to her director, her Svengali...