Word: coring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about this point a commotion broke out in the audience, which was composed of followers of the suspended priest, the bums and degenerates that flock to the Common, and a solid core of hecklers. The latter began to shout questions as the speaker steadfastly shrilled on. The interruptions obviously disturbed Father Feeney. "Gee, gimme a chance, I've been out here a year and a half," he pleaded at one point...
...large part of physical research now centers on mesons. Physicists believe that they are the "glue" that holds atoms together. According to the best-established theory, the nucleons (protons and neutrons that form the nuclei of atoms) have some sort of core surrounded by a cloud of rapidly moving mesons. Each shares its meson cloud with neighboring nucleons. If it were not for this sharing of mesons, the physicists believe, most atoms would fly apart, their protons repelling one another with enormous force...
Producer Michael Balcon (Tight Little Island, Kind Hearts and Coronets) has turned out a picture in the best tradition of satirical good humor. Alec Guinness, recently the victim of six murders in Kind Hearts, makes a thoroughly satisfactory criminal mastermind. Though remaining British to the core, he somehow achieves an almost Latin intensity in his role of a little man in happy revolt against society...
...entirely different story when the yardlings had the ball. The freshmen did manage to pick up ten first downs, but they were able to get only one core really going, that in the opening minutes of the games...
...Siberia) and Akkadian (ancient Babylon), Columbia is adding Avestan, the language of Zoroaster; Kurdish, spoken by the wandering Kurds of Turkey, Iraq and Iran; and Tagalog, a native language of the Philippines. Total languages now available: 50. ¶ After five years of experimenting, Harvard finally put its General Education "core curriculum" into practice. From now on, each student must take at least one specially designed course in the humanities and the social and natural sciences. Sample G.E. course: "Humanism in the West"-man's ideals, tensions, hopes and failures as seen through great books from the Iliad...