Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is a third method of dealing with examination questions--that is by the use of the overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it is pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact it isn't obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarranted assumption...
Conducted by Thomas A. Lehrer 3G, the author of a recent poem about the sculpture, the religious services were to be highly symbolic of the "cosmic forces that move the universe." The vernal equinox actually occurred at 5:24 a.m., but Lehrer said that those participating in the affair felt that hour to be too "un-Christian...
...flying saucers, said Physicist Liddel, were actually giant plastic balloons called Skyhooks, which the Navy has been sending aloft since 1947 with electronic instruments to record cosmic rays. As the 100-ft. balloons soar higher & higher (maximum height: 19 miles) they expand, and are often pushed along by high-altitude winds at speeds up to 200 m.p.h. When seen from below, particularly when reflecting light rays from its underside, a Skyhook looks exactly like a big saucer...
...hardly fair to blame colleges in general, or Dartmouth in particular, for the triumph of Suburbia or the possibility of World War III. Colleges are symptoms and victims of a cosmic disease, and they cannot be cured by injections of radical hormones. World affairs are pushing college education around these days, and it may be a long time before ideals can turn the tables...
...thoughts of Mr. Gropius, This cosmic hatrack is the dopius...