Word: floats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Masters are also enthusiastic about tutor-student dinners, and these should be preserved, if only for those students who know nothing so exciting as facing their tutors across a white table-cloth and wineglass. If the undergraduate is to float through the House system in a sea of second-class sherry, he might at least have intellectual company...
Trials were conducted among the craggy islands in Casco Bay, near Portland, Me., where dense schools of herring drift through twisted channels. Traditionally, Maine fishermen float long nets out into the channels to shunt the herring into the waiting traps. But such nets have drawbacks. They need constant maintenance, they cannot be extended across heavily traveled waterways, they are often carried away by tidal currents...
Seven years ago Alastair Pilkington, a glass expert, whose father Sir Harry is chief of Britain's great Pilkington glass company, was helping his wife wash dishes. Watching the suds floating on the dishwater, he got an idea that is likely to revolutionize the manufacture of flat glass. Last week Alastair Pilkington explained his "float glass" process in the New Scientist...
Martha Duff saw her first Amuesha Indians from the window of a float plane. "I wasn't too sure I wanted to step outside," she recalls. "Then as I stepped off the plane, one little girl took me by the hand and talked to me in her Indian language. I could tell she wanted to be friends." The Amueshas, it turned out. were peaceful sun worshipers-their only word for the sun is "our father"-who took to the idea of school enthusiastically. They are perfectly willing, for instance, to catch a particular variety of fish so that...
...that a subsidiary, Thompson Industries, Inc., which Sheraton bought in a burst of diversification in 1946 and which has grown into a $23 million-a-year auto-parts maker, suffered from the auto recession. Also, Sheraton has been building and buying so much that it plans soon to float a $25 million nonconvertible debenture issue carrying a fat 7½% interest. Said Henderson: "I think we've got enough to keep us busy for a long time...