Word: felted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theses and conduct doctoral exams. His daily routine has been changed only by the fact that he has found time to accept invitations to lecture outside the University. He most recently was invited to deliver the Candler Lectures at Emory University. When he was still actively teaching, Professor Wolfson felt he couldn't afford the time away from Cambridge. He considers them a "good change," and feels that any professor can always keep himself busy in retirement by lecturing...
...Iron Curtain some news outlets accepted the line. Cried Radio Warsaw: "Victory for the U.S.S.R." Cabled Correspondent Mamoru Kikuchi to the Japan Times: "East Germany has won de facto recognition." Such was the effect of the Communist pitch that at one point U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter felt obliged to spell out the West's attitude toward the East German regime during a conference session, persuaded Britain and France to do the same...
...week's end the union stood fast in its demand for recognition, while the hospitals were equally firm in rejecting it. As State Supreme Court Justice George Tilzer wrestled with motions and counter-motions on the injunction suits, he felt that both sides had forgotten that the patients' welfare should be their first concern, asked exasperatedly: "Has reason been abandoned by all you people?" The question was rhetorical...
Fiddling with elaborate detectors, Lieut. Walter Johnson, 29, of the Navy's medical corps, was measuring the power density of microwave radiation from radar beams aboard the guided-missile cruiser Galveston. All at once he felt a slight burning sensation in his backside. Dr. Johnson happened to have a couple of neon lamps (the size of flashbulbs) in his hip pocket. With no wires or other connections, the lamps had glowed and heated up when he got in the way of radar waves...
Though attrition was high, the Treasury had expected it, had enough cash on hand so it will not have to go to market again immediately. The T-men felt that sweetening the issue with a higher interest rate would not have done much good. With the pickup in business, corporations can see other uses for the money, are reluctant to hold an issue for a year. They prefer shorter-term bills, even though the rates are lower (2½-2⅝%) until they can see where money rates are going...