Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member of each team will give a five minute introductory talk explaining the position taken by the two squads. Following these, there will be a 30 minute moderated round table discussion in which both sides will present their pertinent remarks. Finally, each team will make a two minute summary of its position in relation to the remarks of the other team, and will try to reach a constructive conclusion...
...seems that the "welfare state" would "control every human action from the womb to the tomb." Alice would doubtless remark in a thoughtful tone, "That's a great deal to make two words mean." And Alice being an unusually logical girl would think it odd that the people so alarmed about the government getting all mixed up in other people's business could at the same time be heartily in favor of high tariffs, and subsidies of farm prices, and subsidies of railroads, and subsidies of merchant shipping. Alice, having stayed too long in Wonderland, might not know that...
...question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things...
...expanded into a series of near-disasters. Seven Harvard men (plus a gentleman from the Alpine Club of London) attacked the 25,600-foot "White Goddess" in 1936 and (1) ran into a glacial flood, (2) lost half of their local porters in a mass mutiny, (3) had to make six trips down a 12-mile gorge to carry in supplies, and (4) had a case of ptomaine poisoning 1000 feet from the summit. After half a year of work, only two of the party reached the peak. They spent an hour there and left...
...shortage. A few years later a Harvard man and a Dartmouth man made headlines by rescuing a starving aviator from Devil's Tower, a fantastic-looking column jutting from the Wyoming desert. It seems that the flyer, who parachuted onto the tower on a bet, had imprudently neglected to make further plans...