Word: hole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...improvements in the University's provisions for commuters since 1933, when they ate lunch in a "Black Hole of Calcutta" in PBH were outlined by Charles P. Whitlock, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Dudley House...
Following a technique originally developed by another Yugoslav, Petar N. Martinovitch, she cuts a small square hole in the eggshell. Then she uses modified watchmaker's forceps to cut off two of the five parts of the undeveloped brain. The detached tissue is picked up with a suction pipette and transplanted to the head of another embryo that has been prepared by similar surgery to receive it. Finally, the hole in the second eggshell is covered with transparent material, and the egg with its patchwork embryo is replaced in the incubator...
...Advice. Brower did offer some advice. "What you and I have to do, patiently and day by day, is to teach that work can be fun, that the only real reward that life offers is the thrill of achievement. A hole in one isn't half as thrilling as landing a big order-a piece of furniture built in your basement workshop will never be as thrilling as a sales plan that works. You and I cannot take care of the whole nation, perhaps, but we can do such a job in our own small corners that others...
...couple of days of good Will, and the training sergeant (Myron McCormick), a man prepared for almost anything but affection, has been almost killed with kindness. Desperate, he decides to fit the round peg in a round hole. Though regulations forbid such cruel and unusual punishments, the sergeant secretly assigns Will as "P.L.O.-Permanent Latrine Orderly." "P.L.O.!" gasps Will, "Oh, thank you, sir." And he proceeds to prove himself such an orderly orderly that the captain compliments him on the condition of the latrine. Will allows that most of the credit belongs to the sergeant who-"He what!" the captain...
Shirley Stith was the first person out of her seat. She leaped through the hole. As she touched the ground, there was a flash of blue sparks, and she crumpled to the ground. In breaking, the tree had pulled down a 2,400-volt power line, left the wire draped as a single-strand shroud over the metal hulk...