Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Political Committee of the United Nations began discussion of "the Cyprus problem." This is the fifth straight year that the matter has come before the UN; and it would be difficult to find any real progress achieved in all this time. Among the many knotty colonial problems begging for some kind of solution today, Cyprus is certainly one of the most insoluble...
Leighton said he thought no matter what "dream castles" there might be in the architectural stages, his most important task at the present was to "make use of the resources Dudley has now, to justify the faith put in it when it was incorporated in the Program for Harvard College...
...training meal has been a sacred part of the athletic credo for centuries. As a recent study of the matter concluded, "It has its roots in the superstition and magic of the unrecorded past." At one time men ate powdered lion's teeth to make them strong, and similar practices prevail in many primitive cultures even...
...does its greatest damage, perhaps, in segregating athletes from the mainstream of college life. Meals in the House dining rooms, no matter how unfortunate in their culinary aspects, are clearly a very good way of making new friends. Athletes miss out on this to some extent; and athletes are a rather isolated group to begin with--given the need for long afternoon practices, trips to other colleges...
...engineers made a close study of the world's only other big geothermal power plant, at Larderello in central Italy. Larderello's steam has been used since 1913 to drive power plants. New Zealand's steam needs less treatment to free it of foreign matter and seems to be far more plentiful. Though authorities at first hesitated to schedule expensive powerhouses in the geothermal region for fear that the steam wells might peter out, nothing of the sort has happened; after eight years the oldest of the steam wells is screaming as loud as ever...