Word: felted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fermi?" he called. Several underlings started yelling for Fermi. He was standing in the dirty snow talking about the atom. I asked him how it was five years ago. He said shyly: "Well, it was awfully cold, and there was a wind blowing." I asked him how he felt when the curve was "exponential." "I didn't think much of anything because I knew it was going to work," he said. And what did he feel this afternoon, five years later? He looked at the slush and shrugged his shoulders: "Well, for better or for worse...
...willing to bet," says one HLU man, "that the HYRC won't have one half of its original membership by this time next year," while Robert A. Levine '50, also a Liberal Unionist, felt that the new rightist organization might provide the spark needed to fire some of the many dormant liberalists among the students. "There are plenty of liberals on the campus," said Levine, "but they're just too damned lazy to join an organization...
...right arm during the war, Schless had the muscles of his upper arm and shoulder blown away, but regained muscular control except for movements above his head. Although he wrestled in a Varsity meet against M.I.T. last year, team doctors felt that further intercollegiate competition might irreparably damage his motion...
...conception is the belief that the average Cambridge Scholar is the epitome of the social snob. One student from Indian discovered he had not been invited to several parties at the state university simply because beer was to be the beverage of the day. Harvard men, the local boys felt, would quaff nothing but the more expensive and refined scotch...
With an average student backing of about 65 percent for its specific wheat saving measures, the Council felt that the 1500 undergraduates voting were not sufficiently in favor of the proposals to warrant further Council stress. Voluntary saving, possibly, directed by individual House committees, was urged by the group...