Word: floating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With visions of a Hollywood contract dangling before them, members of the Freshman and Varsity crew squads did their stuff in front of the grinding machine of a Fox Movietone cameraman on the float of Newel boathouse and up and down the river...
...dark, on the Charles River last night that Tom Bolles didn't know whom he had rowing on the last eight which pulled away from the Newell float and headed into the downstream gloom...
...rich meals, and he sighed in sympathy. "The employees of this great university, the maids and biddies and watchmen, contributed $4650 last year to the community fund, but undergraduates gave only $2200." Vag shuddered at that forbidding countenance, and discovered to his dismay that it was easier to float through the walls of Brooks House than to sink through the floor...
...flotation of manganese carbonate, the sandy wastes sink and the desirable minerals float and are skimmed off. But this didn't work with the oxide, so new reagents had to be developed which have an affinity for the wastes rather than for the minerals. Now the wastes are floated off, and the manganese oxide collects in fairly pure form in the bottom...
...choristry, seemed to have as its thesis Poet Auden's words: All but heroes are unnerved, when life and love must be deserved. But there was a lot more, such as a mammy and four unclassifiable Civil War characters, billed as "The Defeated" and wheeled in on a float. Composer Britten's tunes ranged in inspiration from U.S. and British balladry to Social Satirist Marc Blitzstein (The Cradle Will Rock...