Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those of Senior standing elected are: Alan S. Cohen '47 of Dorchester; Norman Geschwind '46 of Dunster House and Brooklyn; Henry B. Helson '47 of Adams House and Bryn Mawr, Pa.; and Ivan I. Morris '46 of Manchester, Mass...
...introductory chapter President Conant develops the concept of the role of science in the non-scientist's education and responsibilities. There is nothing new here. From such diverse sources as the General Education Report and the Smyth Report on Atomic Energy, the growing need for some sort of mass comprehension of science has been iterated and reiterated. When President Conant concludes that the layman can best understand science through its tactics and strategy, rather than by means of "even the basic principles or simplest facts," he moves closer to uncharted territory. This approach, President Conant believes, will show the walls...
...spectators exhaled a mass sigh of relief as the couple stumbled off deliriously, hand in hand. Eleven prisoners, muttering to each other, pushed on down the street past the muttering crowd: "Unpredictable Russians . . . incredible ... I can't understand. ... I don't understand the Russians...
Blow Cold. Patterson thinks the airplane is still in the taxicab stage, and that the day of cheap mass transportation is years away. Nor does he think that some magical new discovery will hasten things much. He believes in inch-by-inch progress all down the line-starting, for example, by cleaning up the washrooms in airports. The recent squabble over whether airlines shall use G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach) or I.L.S. (Instrument Landing System) seems silly to him. Says he: "We need them both, one to check on the other. And we shouldn't use them until we learn...
Boozehound. In Brookline, Mass., Tiger, a two-year-old beagle, accidentally locked in an auto trunk for 21 days, survived, regained twelve lost pounds on a diet of eggnog...