Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Milkweed Floss. The conference did discuss two newly valuable plants, both weeds: milkweed and cattails. The floss from the pods of the common milkweed is a fine cellulose tube inclosing sealed air. It retains remarkable buoyancy for weeks, is an excellent insulator. As a suit lining it can keep a man afloat in water, can protect aviators against cold. It is also useful for industrial insulation and soundproofing...
Winston Churchill's achievement was that he, alone among the leading Allied statesmen, had given the Allied peoples something that they could grasp, examine, discuss in tangible terms. Out of this discussion, by week's end, had come a good deal of light on the world that people want-and on the world that they are likely to have...
These men will each discuss the phase of the plan for which his training and experience has been fitted...
Weismiller's project, "Creative writing in the field of poetry" will succeed his earlier work in that field which included a volume of verse published in 1936; "The Deer Come Down." Miss Edinger, famous for her articles published in German, French, and English, is a refugee scholar and will discuss the tooth replacement in Amphibia and Reptilia. Nabokov was born in Russia and is a scientist as well as novelist, his most recent novel being "The Real Life of Sebastian Knight...
Only the chairman will be neutral in tonight's meeting, where student and faculty opinions will be encouraged by a poll at the end of the evening on the results of the discussions. Similar meetings have been established at Oxford and Cambridge Universities where weekly gatherings are held to discuss governmental policies and proceedings...