Word: fitful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort, which consumed the time of not only the student members of the committee, but such respected Faculty members as Giles Constable and Stanley Hoffmann, the College Council met without reading the recommendations before hand and dismissed them for the present in what turns out to have been a fit of pique...
...need generalists who are competent to inter-relate the functions and the interests of one component of our society with another, who understand how to calculate the common, overlapping interest. Someone must comprehend and be capable of acting on knowledge about where the various pieces of the picture fit together, how they best integrate into the whole coordinated effort. The man who develops an inter-disciplinary, inter-community experience can better perform this function. Ideas must cross-fertilize across arbitrary groupings, and ultimately to communicate those ideas effectively you need to movement, not just words and pieces of paper. When...
Backyard Beginnings. The birder must be physically fit to slog through swamps, intellectually alert to recognize the innumerable species he might encounter, keen enough to thrill at the sight of a great blue heron overhead. But what gets him started in the first place? "We began watching birds in our backyard," explains Seismologist James Ellis. "Then we didn't recognize a bird, so we bought a cheap book. Then there were more birds, so we bought a more expensive book. It kind of grabs you after a while." It grabbed San Francisco's Raymond Higgs so hard that...
...Tacks" -- no less!) exhibits the kind of sophomoric bunk that I do not usually associate with the CRIMSON. The rhetoric is fair but he didn't read the article. And if he did, then he's guilty of the gar greater sin of twisting the gist thereof to best fit his private beat. Shortly stated, Lardner's paraphrase of what Kearns and Levinson wrote is that the best way to dump the chief is to a) start a third party, and b) get Percy or Hatfield nominated. That really would be pretty stupid...
According to Carlhian, the tile exterior had advantages of great strength, good insulation of the building, and the attractive dark finish. The tiles could easily be molded in any shape in order to fit around windows and protruding edges of the building...