Word: cruft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this particular hook-up, the record for the Navy side of the Radar school had been eight weeks. Apparently, the accelerated courses given here at Cruft laboratory seem to have had more than just a scholastic effect upon the student today...
Yesterday was a milestone in your correspondent's Cruft career. Some wide-eyed, lab-dazed Ensign who had probably just come from a two hour tussle with a multivibrating circuit, approached the Navy office and with all the confidence of on on the verge of profundity, asked the all time hit parade question--"How many copies of orders do I need to go to Tech...
Ever since the Radar Rockettes made their debut, the Cruft Laboratory has not been the same. There was a time when one could enter the austere building and walk through quiet, dignified halls. Now all is changed. An undercurrent of swing is plainly discernible and one has the jivy feeling that a hepcat session is somewhere in progress though hidden from the electronic eyes of student and faculty...
Know affectionately as the "Cruft Quiz Kid" by his students, one of Harvard's busiest wartime professors and one of its outstanding men of science, Professor Emory L. Chaffee, head of the Cruft Laboratories, now fills a gamut of war positions that would keep three normal men busy...
...Phillips Brooks House Service Relations Committee. It was while serving on this committee last winter that he received his most unique title. Appearing with five of his colleagues on a quiz program at an officer's party, Professor Chaffee was caricatured by a Boston Herald Cartoonist as "Leon, the Cruft Quiz Kid." The framed caricature now hangs proudly in Chaffee's outer office...