Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...virtue triumphed and the revelling crowds poured back home over Lars Anderson Bridge as the heliotrope sun sank into the golden Cambridge dusk
...American government the department is solid and sometimes flashy. Professor Cherington has appeared in the last couple of years as the Golden Boy of the squad on the lecture platform; he gives a course in Problems of Federalism--though not next year--and has taken over the entire management of 155, the industry regulation course. This has resulted in higher-voltage lectures coupled with the same old dull reading...
...Force's best test pilots, at the bomber's controls. Followed by two F-80 "chase airplanes" (to observe the X-1 in flight), the B-29 circled to 7,000 ft. above the lake. Then Chuck, bundled in a flying suit and topped with a golden, hard-plastic crash helmet, climbed down a retractable ladder and squeezed through the door in the side...
...excellent if misguided motives-as he might join the Nazi or Communist Party in protest against social injustices; once in, the individual has little voice in the organization, which pursues policies of its own, often diametrically opposed to what the individual wanted in the first place. This process, said Golden, "creates a trap." Unless this dilemma can be resolved, the whole fiber of human society is endangered...
...football team for a while, gave it up 45 years ago. In the years after the Civil War, when the U.S. needed engineers and mechanics more than ever before, M.I.T. had no time for the cultural preoccupations of the liberal-arts colleges. While neighbor Harvard was enjoying the Golden Age of William James and Santayana, M.I.T. was off on a tangent of its own. It was the first U.S. college to have a department of meteorology, .of chemical, architectural and electrical engineering. It was the first to require its students to have regular laboratory instructions in physics and chemistry...