Word: irregularities
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Business School requirement for undergraduates causes the most problems for residents of the Radcliffe Quad. Students at the River Houses face a reasonable five or ten minute walk to their cars; but Quad students, dealing with irregular shuttle bus service to the Business School, have a considerably longer journey to their cars...
...nothing in their standard pellets of food that could account for the poison's presence. Jones, however, did find that there was a potentially damaging concentration of dieldrin in the sawdust used as bedding in the rodents' cages. With all the fervor of a Baker Street Irregular, he then traced the suspect sawdust to a maker of wooden window frames. There, Jones found, the manufacturer had, quite legally, sprayed a wood preservative containing dieldrin on his lumber to protect it against infestations of woodworms. The mice took in a little sawdust each time they ate the food pellets...
...easy," said Joanne Lutz, a Bridgeport, Conn., housewife, after giving birth to her first child three years ago. "A few pushes and there he was." Her second delivery was not so simple. Mrs. Lutz had been in labor less than an hour, when monitors detected an irregular infant heartbeat and other signs of fetal distress. A difficult natural birth might have produced a brain-damaged or even stillborn baby. So her doctor promptly performed a caesarean section, safely lifting out a 6-lb. girl. Says Mrs. Lutz: "A scar is a small price to pay for a healthy baby...
Hindemith called his composition "a little potpourri," a description that can only be regarded as Teutonic irony. In the first and final movements particularly, the music is a swift series of sharp, irregular beats and accents, a current of almost uncontained energy. Balanchine has set it for two couples, Karin von Aroldingen and Sean Lavery, Colleen Neary and Adam Luders, and, for the first time in over a decade, a corps of eight male dancers. In the fast sections, Balanchine uses sprung rhythms. Karin may start a staccato move just a little ahead of Colleen, or lead by an entire...
...restricted, he was prohibited from returning to his job as editor of the East London Daily Dispatch and prevented from speaking with more than one person (except for family members) at a time. Government agents read his mail, bugged his home and phone, and kept him under general-if irregular -surveillance...