Word: experimentally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The University Press's first venture into the paper-bound book business appeared on national news-stands yesterday. The subject for this experiment is "The Fifth Amendment Today," by Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Law School.
For it turned out that their experiment, though born out of innocent curiosity, violated a college ruling against publicizing the Wellesley name without official sanction. And in addition, the "Syndicate" members suddenly became rather unpopular with their dorm-mates, who found it hard to get used to the 3 a.m...
The Syndicate's Secretary of Ways and Means said that "the whole idea is merely an experiment prompted out of curiosity."
Last week La Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (transit authority) embarked upon an experiment designed to give the subway a daintiness hitherto found only in boudoir and meadow. Each train traveling two of the main routes across Paris was equipped with an atomizer through which gushed a jet...
"We shall determine the traveling public's opinion later on," announced one huffy transport spokesman at the end of the first day's experiment.