Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hydraulic presses bent the lengths of 27-in. steel pipe to fit every bump, dip, peak and ravine along the snaking route. Winches and big tractors swung the 30-ft. sections into position, and welders sealed the joints. The outer covering was finally tested with the pipeliners' "conscience": a machine that uses a 10,000-volt electrical charge, and registers a short circuit at any spot where the covering is too thin. Then bulldozers filled in the trench, leaving only a great scar winding across the forest and the mountains...
Meanwhile the Council was busy with alternate plans. A committee headed by Robert H. Cole '52 suggested that decanal functions be vested primarily in the Housemaster, who may delegate them "as he sees fit." The report included ideas for getting better tutors such as requiring them to sit one to a table. The Faculty rejected the suggestions...
...financial position during the depression, some of these men would have to be cut loose. If these men had been kept on a permanent basis the faculty would have tripled in approximately ten years Furthermore, the large number of young instructors and assistant professors made it very difficult to fit in outstanding men from other universities...
...White House ... I never cease to marvel at the many facets of the MacArthur personality, but this one really takes the cake. What makes Mac think he is an exception to the old political axiom-that generals make poor presidents? It smacks of an inflated ego, plus a childish fit of pique, i.e., "if I can't have it, neither...
...latest Lampoon--the so-called Race Week Issue--will fit in perfectly with all reunion activities. It has the attributes commonly ascribed to reunioning graduates; a fine old fellow, lots of life still in him, but yet somewhat fuzzy and at times even a little bloated...