Word: fro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...activities do take place in the House; there are several science clubs, and an economic seminar has just been formed. An outstanding event of the past year was an Eliot House symposium on poetry with Archibald MacLeish and I. A. Richards (both members of the staff) that brought crowds fro all over the University...
...makings of a rather engaging talc. Unfortunately, when much of the story consists of "Chicken Every Sunday" family incidents, the musings of a madman are hardly the appropriate narrative device. Only the excellent and perceptive writing and the author's wide knowledge of the locale rescue the book fro the awkwardness of the plot...
Everybody knows that stars twinkle, but no one is sure what makes them do it. Some scientists say that small irregularities in the air act like tiny lenses and make the stars seem to vibrate to & fro. Others think the twinkling is in the eye. Because the pinpoint star-images can cover only a few of the light-sensitive receptors in the eye's retina at a time, the slightest movement makes the star seem to jump and twinkle as the image moves from one group of receptors to another...
...started with an advertising man's dream-a vision of a helpless, pliable throng, ears open and guards down, known in the trade as a "captive audience." Trapped in Manhattan's cavernous Grand Central Terminal, where each day 500,000 persons swarm to & fro, was the biggest audience in captivity. The temptation was irresistible. Grand Central expanded its public address system into a small broadcasting studio, laid in a supply of canned music, syrupy-voiced announcers and loudspeakers (82 of them), and went into business. Advertisers eagerly paid $1,800 a week for the privilege of spraying music...