Word: knits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Austin talked, Wu had sat tense as a coiled spring. In appearance, the Wu at whom the statesmen and television viewers stared for an answer bore no resemblance to his master in Peking. Where Mao is fat, moonfaced, stooped and aging (at 57), Wu is well-knit, slant-headed and fortyish. Wu's hands were clasped in the lap of a cheap black suit. As many Orientals do, he betrayed his tension by nervous knee-knocking. When he rose, Austin quickly had his answer: Wu offered war or surrender. Not his knees, but a large part...
Serious consideration of these minor problems could knit individual outstanding freshmen into a team. It could make football more attractive to present Yardlings, as well as to the potential Yardlings who are so badly needed...
...helium. The stars-at least those within the telescope's field-had been measured, studied, divided into classes. The galaxies, those vast swirls of stars out in distant space, had also been measured and classified. There were new theories too, and good ones, but no general theory to knit things together. This was because (as Hoyle explains disarmingly) there was no one with enough knowledge imagination and daring to do the formidable...
Professors are resigned to the fate of watching men take notes and girls knit. Certain men such as Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, admit that women in class have caused them to alter their styles slightly, but they are proceeding in quiet submission...
Reading your two-page spread on Columbia makes me feel a little skeptical of the value of the closely-knit Ivy League. There is no doubt that what the Ivy League really stands for--scholarship--is unsurpassed by any group of colleges in these United States. But it is also true that there appears to be a breach in the union of these colleges. Some three or four of the better-known Ivy League schools have come to look down on the other member colleges. This "looking down" is something more and beyond mere rivalry; it is more...