Word: element
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which has added to knowledge of the universe through radio telescopes tuned to various frequencies at the radio end of the electromagnetic spectrum. (The Harvard 60-foot radio telescope, for example, listens to 21-centimeter waves, the wavelength of emissions from neutral hydrogen gas. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe...
...this cult is the notorious Cucumber Sandwich. Devised during World War II when the ingredients of other canapés were strictly rationed, it is now served mostly at Thursday teas. The teas, of course, are the cult's most festive rites. Here Mrs. Perkins is in her element; she can send faculty members scurrying to the kitchen for more hot water or tell the Mayor of New York that the tea is all gone without ever breaking stride. The same charm which bewitches her guests at tea is present at all the Lowell House rituals and the other University...
...Andrews, proposed the walk last month in a letter addressed to the "President of the Student Body, Harvard University." Noting that his school was planning a hike to advertise its charity drive, he continued, "In view of President Kennedy's recent remarks on fitness, we would introduce an international element into our Stroll...
...method that needs no chemicals, can duplicate anything from grease pencil to ballpoint pen, though it is more successful in copying type than photographs. The 914 makes copies by projecting the image of the original document or object onto an electrostatically charged drum coated with a sensitive element called metallic selenium. The machine automatically sprinkles the drum with a black powder that adheres to the dark portions of the image; the drum then rolls the powder onto the paper, which is also electrostatically charged. A quick blast of heat fixes the powder permanently to the paper...
...Irish famine does not come under the head of genocide, as British Historian A.J.P. Taylor provocatively has put it. The gas ovens of Auschwitz were the weapons of a deliberate crime. The Irish tragedy was a more confused thing, in which ignorant good will was not the least fatal element. But it is hardly surprising that the Irish blamed the British and that 1,000,000 Irish who somehow managed to escape to Canada, the U.S., England or Australia carried with them as their only inalienable possession-hatred. Only the statute of limitations, which rules the reading of history...