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...sawed-off, hammered-down, pint-flask-size men of the world hold their heads in pride high above their inches today. A new Napoleon has arisen to the height of five feet seven to lead the bantam brigade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Home from the Field | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

Curious, the senior sat down again. "It started last year," he continued, "when I was taking both Chem 20 and Chem 40. Labs every afternoon and after a while I began to imagine that I was an Erlenmeyer flask--Pyrex, you know, and shaped like this," he said as he waved his hands vaguely about...

Author: By James A. Sharaf, | Title: Flameproof | 4/16/1958 | See Source »

...felt as if I were surrounded by a glass wall, cut off from the rest of the College by my continual labs. In short, I was in an Erlenmeyer flask and was slowly merging with...

Author: By James A. Sharaf, | Title: Flameproof | 4/16/1958 | See Source »

...could enter into the world of Bohemia but I was cut off from that land by the glass wall. My acting--like a robot, they told me. I tried growing a beard but it was no use. I knew it was wrong, knew I was nothing but a Pyrex flask with a fiberglass beard. So I gave up and shaved it off. I began to think that perhaps it was my fate to become an Erlenmeyer flask. But fate or not, still I struggled...

Author: By James A. Sharaf, | Title: Flameproof | 4/16/1958 | See Source »

...knew, though, that it was no use when I began to see people as walking biochemical factories. That was the day I resigned myself to being made of glass, to being an Erlenmeryer flask...

Author: By James A. Sharaf, | Title: Flameproof | 4/16/1958 | See Source »

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