Word: dead-end
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...concentration, such an adviser shows him the pitfalls of a narrow first year curriculum. When a Freshman is doubtful of the line his college career will take, this adviser attempts to aid him, to guide him, to keep him from wasting precious months and precious courses heading up a dead-end program...
...year ago, a crowd of 800 dead-end loyalists in the stands was good. One night last week, there were 20,000 cash customers left outside the park and 36,356 inside when the Phillies lined up against the St. Louis Cardinals. The Phils, in their new red, white & blue uniforms, made circus catches, beat out bunts, took the Cardinals...
...ZoBell also found that certain bacteria etch little holes in limestone, allowing petroleum to percolate through. Others give off gases, forcing oil out of dead-end pores. Others pry oil films off mineral surfaces. All these quiet, persistent activities probably help the oil to collect in large underground pools...
...Dead-End Road. If Kweiyang were to go as nine other U.S. bases had gone, the Japs would be in a position to: 1) advance northward along the Burma Road toward Chungking itself; 2) turn southwest toward Kunming or northwest to Pichieh and cut the best alternate road over which U.S. supplies might move in quantity, once the Burma end of the Road was cleared (see below...
Controversy developed. Joseph Chamberlain, Board of Trade president, favored the project until he lunched, one day, in the dead-end hole. It was very dusty; his suit was dirtied; the experience antagonized him toward the scheme. Gladstone favored the tunnel; Lord Randolph Churchill quashed it with a cogent remark. Said he: "The reputation of England has hitherto depended upon her being, as it were, virgo Intacta." Periodically the project was revived, discussed, quashed. Britons mostly agreed with Winston Churchill's father, had especial reason to do so when the Germans reached Calais...