Word: coring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those familiar with the language of University rulings will not look for rhyme in the gate decree; fortunately for the sake of this crusade, neither is the ruling blessed with reason. Arguments for the locking seem to concern a hard core of young gentlemen from the Cambridge precincts who find sanctuary within the Harvard Yard. Because their department is not always in tone with the restraint of Mower freshmen, these citizens of the area have been termed undesirable by the University's finest. Attempts were made to curb access to this haven and locking the gates...
...good uranium concentrator, with the sand in one of the oil-well filters. When he sent the filter coal to the Atomic Energy Commission after a few weeks, he got the report that it was several times as rich in uranium as the sand. Shepherd then took some shallow-core samples of the rock in one section of Nowata County and shipped them off to AEC. The assays showed a uranium content well above the lowest commercial grade...
Malraux last week, "the renaissance of French liberalism . . . This liberalism is symbolized by Mendés-France. Should Mendés-France fall, crystallization could take place with surprising rapidity." Calculating aloud, Malraux figured that only 1,500,000 of the 5,000,000 Communist voters were really hard-core supporters...
There are many signs that the President will now have an easier time dealing with his own party. The pro-Eisenhower half is more than ever warmly attached to him. There will still be the hard core of the extreme right-wing. But they are no longer in control of any of the crucial committees, the President does not have to appease them in order to carry his measures, and they are left with nothing much more than the right and the power to speak. In any event a chief executive above parties and factions is the only kind...
...earth, Professor Ramsey believes the same pressure effect comes into play. Since the deep interior of the earth is extremely dense, geologists generally assume that it is made of heavy nickel-iron. Ramsey's theory is that the core is chemically much the same as the crust. Toward the center, the pressure is great enough to crush familiar rocky materials into heavy metals...