Word: fooling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nobody's Fool...
...amazing the way universities fool students into thinking there's no other way to do things, when in fact they're already doing them differently somewhere else," Libby Shaw '80, a delegation member, said yesterday...
Roberta. Harvard-Epworth Church, Sunday at 7:30 p.m. With Dancing Fool...
...stubborn on other scientific issues. As he admitted in his later years: "I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. In Princeton, they consider me an old fool." He had earned this new reputation by his continued objections to what had become the basic conceptual tool for studying atomic structure: quantum mechanics, a statistical way of looking at the atom that Einstein himself had helped develop by using Planck's quanta to explain the nature of light...
...dubbed the "Horrendous Three Hs" by distressed Democrats. Another Republican, Indiana's Richard Lugar, also asked for a place on the committee. Fearing that conservatives might control the committee, Democrats devised a different strategy. "You can't change the ratios on committees," noted Cranston. "But you can fool around with them." So the Democrats did some fooling. They reduced the size of the committee by one seat. This enabled them to eliminate a Republican without changing the ratio. Thus they got rid of one of the Horrendous Hs: Hatch...