Word: hazardously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atomic furnace will heat the boilers of its steam turbines. This stuff will be dangerous. Even the best modern pumps spring leaks, and the smallest leak of radioactive water would make the submarine's cramped quarters uninhabitable. Westinghouse now has an answer to this atomic-age hazard: a "canned" pump, with all its electrical parts locked tight in stainless steel. The whole pump is buried in the water pipe, needing no seals or packing that can leak. One such buried pump has been running steadily at full load for 13,000 hours (1½ years...
...began. Haled into domestic relations court for violating the compulsory-education law, Attorney Myers outlined his test case. Said he: "We want to determine whether the . . . board . . . has a legal right to force parents to send their children to filthy, insanitary, crumbling schoolhouses that are a physical and mental hazard...
...fact that the paper's editors were just as baffled by its set-up as the Bureau of Internal Revenue will come as no surprise to any past or present Crimed. As one editor put it, "The CRIMSON is an amazingly complex operation run in an amazingly hap-hazard way which results in an amazingly successful newspaper...
...whole nasty, hap-hazard business started on January 24, 1873, when a group of juniors produced the first issue of a semi-weekly journal called "The Magenta" (it became The CRIMSON two years later when the College's official color was changed). The tiny, 8 x 10 inch Magenta was primarily a literary magazine which relied heavily on the essay and ran about two poems per issue. It did print College news, however, and in 1878 added an athletic column and a "sporting editor...
...sounded a familiar note when he noted that "the candidates did most of the news-gathering, and their period of servitude was too long gruelling." The competitions are still tough, but now they are constitutionally limited to less than 10 weeks. But another hazard has been added, for since 1937 editors have been competing in the fall of their junior year for posts on the eight-man executive board. On today's paper, where the financial incentive has been eliminated, competitions make the wheels go round...