Word: markers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...About a quarter of an hour was required for the shock to travel, deep under the Pacific basin, to the California coast. I waited with little patience . . . At last . . . the luminous point appeared to dance wildly and irregularly. Was it only that the pencil which I held as a marker trembled in my hand? . . . Then the trace appeared on the photographic plate . . . clear and big and unmistakable . . . Mike was a success...
Jonathan Kozol was elected president of the Freshman Debate Council Thursday night. Other newly chosen members of the Executive Committee are Frederick J. Marker, vice president; John R. Kramer, corresponding secretary; Ira B. Shepard, home secretary; Miles P. Berkman, treasurer; Regis J. Murphy, publicity director; and Winthrop M. Smith, assistant to the committee...
Associate Professor Wolff comes back with a half course on the History of Russia to the End of the 18th Century. It's History 155a, given in Emerson A by an excellent lecturer and a tough marker...
Like Sorrowful in Little Miss Marker, Runyon looked sad and sour, even when joking, and little Damon always thought he was angry at him. Sometimes Runyon made shy overtures, but "his stumbling attempt to play the palsey Pop [was] so patently gawky" that Damon Jr. thought his father was just performing an unpleasant chore. Even Runyon's presents were wrong. Damon Jr. was afraid of the huge electric train and could not even lift the sailboat with a five-foot mainmast...
There is, however, quite enough technical magic in the famous episodes-the target incident that gives the first hint of Queeg's queerness, the dye-marker affair that sicklies him o'er with a yellow stain of panic. These scenes, for all their episodic quality, cling together like the well-machined surfaces they...