Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...connected electronically so that they function like parts of a single, very large dish. Since a telescope's resolution is proportionate to its width, the double antenna has a far narrower beam than a single dish. Even finer resolution is obtained by long, rocking metal troughs that gather radio waves and focus them so that they interact with waves gathered by another antenna running at right angles to the first. In Australia, and at Cambridge University. England, such intricate apparatus record information on punched tape and feed it into electronic computers for analysis. They have an effective beam...
...presenting himself to the audience with shoulders thrown back and arms outstretched, calling for the ovation that never fails to come. His ability to rivet attention on himself-whether in a soaring lift, a pantherlike leap, or a flamboyant succession of jetes-is so marked that resident dancers gather in the wings to watch...
Anyone who has observed the daily mixer without music in Widener's reading room will agree that the University badly needs a place for Harvard and Radcliffe students to meet informally. In most universities, students can gather in a union or activities center. Harvard students are condemned to meet in Widener, the unattractive and expensive cafeterias in the Square, and the inconvenient Agassiz living room...
Such forthright exchanges take place daily for English-speaking newsmen covering the Roman Catholic Church's Ecumenical Council in Rome. The reporters gather in a building just around the corner from St. Peter's, where, in response to questions, a panel of U.S. bishops and church authorities sheds what light it can on the council's terse and generally uninformative news bulletins...
...seemed the varsity's best defense against the swift Princeton backfield would surely be prayer. But John Yovicsin's outfit turned in its top performance of the year in routing Penn, 36-0, last weak in the rain and the cold. And the talk this week where the faithful gather has been cautiously optimistic...