Word: longs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After two relatively successful meals, the first day of a 10-day cost-cutting experiment in the Adams House Dining Hall was marred by long delays at dinner. In the first of several projects designed to determine whether the Dining Hall System can be economized, the Adams serving line was cut from five to three servers, causing the queue to back up almost to the door...
...evening meal, a long line of hungry and dissatisfied Gold-Coasters was forced into a do-it-yourself project that didn't work. The principal fault lay in the noodles, which frustrated those who attempted to fill their trays quickly and move...
...feasibility of detecting nuclear explosions. They agreed that there is little problem in discovering surface tests since successful techniques used in U.S. monitoring of Soviet activities provided much information in this field. Surface explosions produce heat, light, radioactivity and shock waves which, particularly the last two, are identifiable over long distances...
These and the other four men who finally secure stable positions on the ladder will certainly have their hands full with Princeton, although probably not with Yale. The Tigers will always be dangerous as long as they have Steve Vehslage--the top ranked college player in the country, just one notch ahead of Harvard's Emmett...
This attitude, needless to say, is unfortunate. For, like Pogo and Andres Segovia, like Li'l Abner and Beet-hoven's Ninth, generosity is a fine and beautiful thing. What is ten dollars? Two long-play records, three first balcony seats, 700-odd cigarettes, two Elsie's meal tickets. If it were not for the awkward business of writing out a check and deciding whether or not to feel magnanimous, the whole charity affair would be quite painless...