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...Race. "Under the spate of awe-inspiring vocables, the layman naturally felt that he too must dignify his doings and not be left behind in the race for prestige. Common acts must suggest a technical process. Thus we get 'contact' and 'funnel' as workaday verbs-and 'process' itself: 'we'll process your application' -as if it were necessary to name the steps or choices of daily life with scientific generality . . . The power of words over nature, which has played such a role in human history, is now an exploded belief...
...undergraduate television organization is now impossible, some means must be found to funnel available abilities to the station. At present there are three undergraduate organizations whose memberships contain most of the skills necessary for TV production: WHRB, the Dramatic Club, and Ivy films. But there are many other students in the College and at Radcliffe who, though not interested in any of these groups, would deserve a chance to get a start in television. And there must be a place for them in WGBH...
Swan Song. The worst was yet to come. Five miles above the finish waited murderous Cottonwood Rapids, where the clawing waters, leaping up in snarling talons, funnel through a 20-ft. passage. Thousands of spectators had gathered there for the climax. First through was Bock, showing the strain in his taut face, then Paris, spilling again. Then came Champion Seidel, flashing his two-bladed paddle and maneuvering his tight-fitting craft by swinging his hips, hula-like, to meet crosscurrents. He shot through with expert ease, emerged from angry Cottonwood to come in fourth at the finish...
Splintered Rubbish. Next day the weather blew eastward toward New England. The forecast read "severe local thunderstorms" when at Petersham, Mass., in midstate, a funnel-shaped cloud formed over the picnic grounds in the Massachusetts Federation of Women's Clubs State Forest, took off across country toward Rutland. In Holden, a young housewife ran outdoors with her two-week-old son. The baby was torn from her arms and dashed to death on a rubble pile 100 yards away. The tornado reached the northern corner of Worcester, Mass. (pop. 203,486) in the late afternoon, mercifully missed most...
Eight minutes later, the funnel had curled into a thin spiral, with its tip dipping down to the ground (middle picture). In two minutes more (bottom picture), the funnel had formed a counterclockwise swirl and was ripping up a strip of Illinois...