Word: filtered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...materialize of a sudden in the sophomore year of every class. It starts with the mass that pours through Memorial Hall for the first time every September, a mass that beneath the conglomerate look of be-wilderment already contains the seeds of its own division. Groups of Freshmen filter through--some alone and distant, some bred in the suburbs of Boston, some marked with the imprint of New England's boarding schools. Before the lines disappear, the little knots of conversation have started to coalesce into shadowy outlines of the independent masses they are destined to become...
Socially, Hanover is strictly a weekend town. There just aren't any women around. Girls begin to filter into waiting Dartmouth arms some time Friday evening, and by Sunday night most of the arms are empty again. In between there is plenty of liquor and plenty...
...come back for a visit, he insists on snapping their pictures and putting the pictures in his already cluttered study. His dinners, embellished with gleaming silver from three huge chests and the best of wines, are famous. Over such a dinner, paunchy W.T.S. Stallybrass, with a puff on his filter-tip cigaret, likes to repeat the words of one of his predecessors: "It's a good thing to keep all old traditions-especially the bad ones...
Whoosh! In Vlaardingen, Holland, a chemical worker snitched a likely looking piece of filter cloth (which happened to contain a good deal of guncotton), made himself a pair of pants, then rashly struck a match on them...
Around the Filter. For a long time, Dr. Stern worried over a basic medical problem: why is it that certain medicines and serums injected into the blood stream do not get through to the brain nerve centers? Intravenous injections of anti-tetanus serum, for example, fail to check tetanus once the poison gets into the central nervous system. Dr. Stern decided that there must be a barrier (a filtering membrane), developed to protect the nerves and spinal fluid from harmful substances and most germs. She called this block the "hematoencephalic barrier...