Word: footedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Searching for new laboratory space in 1940, Stanley S. Stevens, professor of Psychology, turned to the eastern part of the basement of Memorial Hall. After an arduous period or reconditioning--he had to drain a room filled with a foot and a half of oil--Stevens founded the Psycho-Acoustical Laboratory, designed for research in the psychological problems of hearing and communications...
...party hostesses called, hoping for clear skies. Every year more weather facts are demanded and supplied: sailing conditions for yachtsmen, rainfall on watersheds. Newspapers and TV feature weather maps. Industries, department stores, oil companies and airlines employ meteorologists. The armed services, more at the mercy of weather than in foot-slogging days, keep thousands of them busy...
...Collins: $50), is one of the most beautiful as well as one of the most expensive books of the year. Its illustrations are the work of the great botanical artists of two centuries, and the flowers stand lushly on pages 1½ ft. high and more than a foot wide. The book derives further elegance from the graceful and handsomely printed essays of Flower Enthusiasts Sitwell and Blunt...
...rights, the first official match at Norwich's Taylor War Memorial Rink (capacity 1500) should not be too much of a thriller. The Cadets have a fair goalie in Captain Bruce Gillies, an awe-some figure who stands six foot three in the nets and makes over 30 saves each game. But outside of Gillies, the Cadets will be counting mostly on spirit and the eternal desire to beat big-name Harvard...
...week: if you want to wish the man at the next desk Merry Christmas, do it personally this year-don't send a card. Reason for the new regulation: the labyrinthine Pentagon's footsore postmen already carry all the mail they can handle. Signing the regulation: Old Foot Soldier Maxwell D. Taylor, Army Chief of Staff...