Word: differently
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defined an inch. Its definition of the meter was inaccurate in terms of the British inch, so when Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, head of the Office of Weights & Measures, defined in 1893 an inch as .02540005+ parts of a meter, the U.S. inch and the British inch came to differ by .000004. (This later got bargained out in an informal compromise...
There have been 296 previous Harvard Commencements, one of which was honored by the presence of Andrew Jackson, another by that of George Washington. The distinction of today's affair is that it is by far the biggest ever. This year's exercises do not differ very much in plan from those of the first Commencement Day, which came late in August, six years after the founding of the College. During the three centuries since then only a few graduations have been cancelled, but there have been several formidable threats to the proceedings...
...extent to which these conditions exist tends to vary among the different dining halls, depending on the number of students each one serves. Unquestionably the Union is the worst in every respect with Eliot, Kirkland, Lowell, Winthrop, and Leverett Houses, served by the College kitchen, second. Since all the food is purchased by one office, and the quality does not differ from place to place, the fault would appear to lie in the degree of efficiency in the preparation of the food...
...Debating Council and the Polo Team and the Orchestra and the Dramatic Society and the Advocate and possibly the HYD or even the Lampoon. It might be difficult to decide whether the HYD or the Lampoon were more worthy of University financial support. At any rate, opinions would differ. Furthermore, if the University subsidized an organization, it would have to supervise its expenditures and activities, a job which we are not anxious to undertake...
...Alamine. A radioactive isotope of carbon has carried three doctors from Boston's Huntington Hospital a little farther toward showing just how cancer cells and normal cells differ. Drs. P. C. Zamecnik, I. D. Frantz Jr., and R. B. Loftfield tagged a protein-building amino acid called l-alzmine with the isotope, watched what cancer tissue and normal liver tissue did with it in test tubes. They found that cancerous livers absorbed the amino acid much faster than normal livers. Eventually, their experiments might help explain why cancer cells grow disastrously faster than normal cells...