Word: letting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exceeded classroom space, and that this rather than the score at Stanford was a cause for worry. He didn't discuss the team much, for the reason that he hadn't watched them yet. But he wound up with a pretty good argument for Mr. Bingham's athletic policy: "Let them (subsidizing colleges) work their side of the street. I hope we never do it any other way than we do now . . . all our players are students, all undergraduates." It was an interesting note of sanity in the football fever of the great hall...
Bandleader Artie Shaw had tried feeding long-hair music to shorthair audiences (in Manhattan's Bop City-TIME, April 25) and wound up, at least figuratively, "with egg on my face." But he had learned a lot: "Let's face it, I was being pretty rigid...
...great machines (large-scale computers) that eat their way through oceans of figures like whales grazing on plankton. At the invitation of Professor Howard H. Aiken, director of Harvard's Computation Laboratory, the scientists arrived full of problems. Said Dr. Aiken: "We've built the machines. Now let's start using them...
...great machines (large-scale computers) that eat their way through oceans of figures like whales grazing on plankton. At the invitation of Professor Howard H. Aiken, director of Harvard's Computation Laboratory, the scientists arrived full of problems. Said Dr. Aiken: "We've built the machines. Now let's start using them...
...Jesse, that was a triumph, but his troubles had just begun. When he let his boys.& girls sit together, instead of keeping them on separate sides of the room, the bearded farmers of the valley grumbled that he was running "a courting school." When he went to call on the lady teacher in the next town ("pretty as a speckled pup," people had told him), the men & boys of her town ambushed him and bombarded him with rotten eggs...