Word: following
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...follow in the middle of the road had stepped aside. The man behind the pistol remained silent, and Sawyer drove away fast...
...learning everywhere, so profound a revulsion that I cannot pass it in silence. That has to do with the evaluation of Einstein, and of his place in science, which no time, no age, and no frivolity can alter, and of the debt that we owe, and that all who follow us will owe, to him. It would seem that the issue goes beyond that of good taste, that it touches on an appreciation of the timeless nature of truth, without which the life of the mind can have no meaning, and without which the very notion of education would...
They learn about Mike Fink, the great river boatman ("a helliferocious fellow," Davy Crockett called him, "and an almighty fine shot"), and in doing so learn about pioneer life on the Mississippi too. They follow Johnny Appleseed across the land, read about the places he went, and something of the apple industry ("Johnny wasn't very practical," one little girl complained. "He would have gotten apples faster if he'd planted cuttings instead of seeds"). When they come to Joe Magarac, the man of steel (he could squeeze out eight rails of molten steel at once), they study...
Experimenters have used radioactive carbon to follow the fat through the veins of rats, and have detected it on their breath as fast as they could collect breath samples. Unfortunately, rats have been the only successful subjects. Humans who got the shots only developed a fever and had to be hospitalized...
Charles J. Keever '51, of Dudley Hall and Hutchinson, Kansas, has been elected sophomore football manager. He will follow Frank S. Jones '50 who has served his apprenticeship as junior assistant manager, and now moves up to varsity manager, succeeding Dwight K. Nishimura...