Word: labs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lab, to be financed by funds other than those provided by the Cancer Society, will probably be established to accommodate the research which the new professor will direct...
...deeply satisfying, so richly rewarding that leisure becomes relaxation rather than escape." Land himself spends much of his time in his laboratory in the company's Cambridge, Mass., headquarters. He devotes about half his time to research (he holds more than 200 U.S. patents), often works in the lab for days and nights on end when a project is at its vital stage. He is busy working on research into color vision, to which he has already made outstanding contributions, and he takes personal responsibility for the company's black-and-white film developments...
...professor (Fred MacMurray) is a small-college chemistry instructor, known to his students as Neddie the Nut, who "cracks the antigravity problem" by producing a substance he calls "flubber"* - lab gab for flying rubber. Flubber is a sort of daffy taffy that "generates its own energy" by a process of "molecular exchange." Sounds fishy? Works fine. When the professor drops a flubber ball on the floor, it bounces back to the height it was dropped from, goes even higher on the second bounce, hits the ceiling on the third, and on the 50th would probably sail to the moon...
Professors, teaching fellows, and lab assistants battled the blaze with a total of ten fire extinguishers until firemen arrived...
Tonight the basketball team will play its final game of the season, meeting Yale at the LAB at 8:15 p.m. With a 3-10 record, the Crimson must win to avoid the ignominy of finishing in sole possession of last place. Columbia has already ended with a 4-10 mark...