Word: following
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Follow That Nose. How does he get his news? Pearson's methods are essentially those of any crack reporter-with certain subtle refinements. "Good news," he says-using the term in its purely technical sense-"comes in two ways: 1) by accurate tips, diligently followed up; 2) by doping out a story for yourself, then confronting some knowing source with it to see if you're on the right track. Generally I just operate with a sense of smell: if something smells wrong, I go to work...
Just how bad an effect this lighting has on the students who work under it is pretty uncertain. Back in 1936 a Missouri elementary school ran off an experiment which discovered that students working under "adequate" lighting got 20 percent better grades than a control group. But a follow-up at an Ohio Western Electric plant, corelating production with lighting, went the other way: workers, believing the light was improving, jumped their output enthusiastically as the illumination was cut to around that of moonlight. It has been determined, however, that lighting of the College's present caliber will inevitably cause...
...Silent Woman" will be the Elephant offering. Students and faculty members will both take on the acting chores in Jonson's drama. It will follow the House Yale dinner next Wednesday...
Barnard Hall started the tradition of caroling the deans more than a decade ago. This will be the first year that, another dormitory will follow suit. After the caroling, the girls will return to their halls for a Christmas party. At Harvard, each girl receives a small gift and a poem written by a follow resident about...
There are two additional hardships put upon the audience and the actors by the modernization that possibly did not occur to the Idlers. Modern audiences expect modern plays (as this one now is) to have a plot they can follow or else no plot at all. "The Way of the World" contains the world's most complicated plot: when seeing it done in Restoration style the plot rightly seems of no importance; when it becomes a play of Cafe Society, there is a natural and frustrating inclination to try and figure...