Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...original core proposals envisioned one survey each in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, and two in the Natural Sciences. But to fit students in this number of courses would raise enrollment figures far beyond the desirable limit; the Faculty decided to offer each course in several different "versions." And at this point the matter of staffing became the crucial factor in determining the Departments' influence on the shape of the emerging program. For it was inevitable that a History professor would run his version of the core Social Science course differently from a member of some other department...
...agent taking over a captured industry. It seems to know where the production schedules and blueprints are-and it throws them away. In their place, it issues orders for the production of nothing but hundreds or thousands of copies of itself, plus an equal number of protein coats to fit. The cell-factory rushes to fill the massive order. It becomes strewn with waste materials. The strain tells. About the time the cell fills the invader's order and completes a myriad new molecules of nucleic acid, it falls into irreparable ruin. And just in time, the new molecules...
Dean Watson has officially recognized the Harvard Humanists, dedicated to the needs of "snorting atheists, agnostics, and humanists." The group was organized to help those whose religious beliefs fail to fit the traditional molds...
...problem of whether or not the vicar's naivete in some way protects him from the world in which he lives, or the question of how much of his faith is the result of his blindness to the facts of his own existence, are not fit topics for comedy. They may be of immense interest to Bergman, but they do not belong here, and the movie's comic structure cannot stand the strain they impose...
...customer (if not necessarily the eater) the deal is an attractive one; it offers a means of at least breaking even on employee or student meals. But the operators themselves have yet to find a way of making hot food vending pay. The reason: vending machine food remains fit to eat for only about four hours after it is cooked. Laments Chicago's Automatic Canteen Co. Chairman Frederick Schuster: "The amount of food you have to throw away at the end of the day is just staggering...