Word: fines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from seeing any evidence of "incredible mismanagement," as Hicken-looper had charged, Oppenheimer thought Lilienthal and the commission had done a fine job-"far better than I thought it would be." Oppenheimer's nine-man General Advisory Committee agreed with his conclusion, he said. As for the supposed risk involved in sending radioactive isotopes overseas for research, he was sure that there was nothing to worry about. Even if the Russians managed to get some, said Oppenheimer, they wouldn't find them much help in making atomic weapons. Like wide-eyed students enthralled by their favorite professor, committee...
...know what you expect of me," he went on softly. "You can imagine what I would say and how I would say it. But I won't say it because I don't want this fine old monastery to be persecuted...
Last week Robert Frost was on his farm near Ripton, Vt., where this spring, with his partner, Stafford Dragon, he manufactured 60 gallons of fine maple sirup. He had also, in the course of the school year, visited and lectured at 20 colleges; but his Homer Noble farm (named for a former owner) is where he spends the longest stretch of the year. He passes his time there, reading history and biography, sometimes working around the rugged mountain farm. When he gets to the Homer Noble farm the arrival is, in a geographical way, something like the one he wrote...
...same time all of the unpleasantness (i.e. the physical effort). This is a very tempting set-up, especially on cold November afternoons, when, clip-board in hand, the writer ascends to the relative warmth and comfort of the Soldier's Field press-box, whence he can gaze down in fine scorn on players and spectators alike...
...Fine fielding plays characterized the game--by Mort, Dunn and Tom Cavanaugh for Harvard, Dowd and Lambert for Yale. Essayen responded with three singles to spark the Crimson's offense...