Word: hammerism
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...Cambridge. There they found two kindred souls, Hermann Bondi and Thomas Gold Trinity College, also mathematicians, who had approached the problem of the universe from a more philosophical angle and were reaching similar conclusions. In eager discussions that sometimes developed into mathematical brawls, the four men began to hammer out their theories...
Loss of graduated left tackle Gerard Walters also hampered Zitrides, although Gil Borjeson, star hammer-thrower for the track team, has improved greatly over the course of the season. At left guard Brown has John Pietre, a slow moving veteran. Center has proved another trouble spot, where Zitrides has been going along with Ed Sexton, an inexperienced junior...
...forces moved quickly to cut the escape routes. On the day that U.N. troops first entered the North Korean capital, Douglas MacArthur had called five newsmen to his Tokyo office, explained that he was about to launch another hammer & anvil maneuver. The next morning, on the sixth anniversary of his World War II landing at Leyte, MacArthur took off for Korea in his new Constellation, the SCAP...
...borders. U.N. air power harassed and hampered these lines. They could be cut at a critical point by a U.N. landing above or below the mudflats on the west coast opposite Pyongyang. Once MacArthur's men were ashore again, the U.N. would have another anvil on which the hammer of troops advancing from the south could crush the enemy's last organized forces and thus pound out the final victory...
Radcliffe's Class of 1951 won't be around to hear hammer and saw on the college's next dormitory, Holmes Hall...