Word: funs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest event of the year for Harvard or Yale men is Race Day at New London. It is not only the traditional boat race (that started back in 1852) that lures every alumnus who can get away for a day from the serious pursuits of life, but also the fun of wading through the broken glass in the Mohican Hotel and shouting long-forgotten nicknames through the narrow streets of Connecticut's famed old whaling port...
...newsprint rolls in the basement of the Times plant, crippling the presses. Promptly, the Tribune offered its presses. Promptly, the Times accepted the Tribune''?, "good neighbor" offer and, missing but one edition, managed to run off 250,000 of its normal 380,000 daily print order. Fun-loving Times Managing Editor Louis Ruppel, onetime Washington correspondent of the New York Daily News, put a picture of his smoking plant on the front page with a series of wisecracking banner headlines for his "Fire Editions." The headlines...
...Fun. But if Dr. Wood has worked long and usefully at science, he has also had a lot of fun out of it-to an extent that makes him a unique character among U. S. physicists. Once he proved that the moon was not made out of green cheese-by obtaining a spectrographic analysis of a piece of green cheese and comparing it with one of the moon. He has always had a passion for making apparatus out of any odd piece of junk that came to hand. On one occasion he made a telescope mounting...
...least of Dr. Wood's fun has been exposing sundry scientific quacks and frauds. Most celebrated case: about 35 years ago, the scientific world was excited by the reported discovery of a mysterious radiation, called "N-rays," by a certain Professor Blondlot of France. Professor Blondlot could not explain the source of the "N-rays'' but he declared that if they were passed through a prism they would cause an electric spark to brighten visibly...
...fun I had while earning it was worth it." The only thing that bothered him, when he read back over his diary, was that there was so much writing about troubles and squabbles in it. "I started out," he reflected, "with the idea that I would not mention any troubles at all, but that is about all the news there...