Word: maze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monre, who will officially replace Dean elect Wilbur J. Bender '27 as head of the Weld Hall maze on July 1, explained that previously all applicants were considered on their war service record but now can be lumped with applicants direct from secondary school...
...that is metabolized (i.e., burned up) by brain tissue, and it seems to have a beneficial effect on nerve activity in the brain. The Columbia researchers first tried feeding concentrated doses of glutamic acid to white rats. The rats' show of intelligence improved noticeably; they solved the standard maze problem in half their former time...
Scarcity in a Show Place. Like most Americans in Moscow, the Atkinsons lived in the large, gloomy maze called the Metropole Hotel. Their one small room was kitchen, dining room, bedroom, study and part-time office. Meals were prepared on a one-plate electric stove and Mrs. Atkinson remembers in detail her daily forays for food in Moscow's rigidly controlled and scantily stocked stores and markets. Non-rationed food was available in a few restaurants-at $70 for a dinner for two. The vast majority of Russians in Moscow, the Soviet showpiece so far as creature comforts...
Jessup was the engine-room philosopher. He liked to puzzle out the "meaning" as well as the mechanics of the Cape Harting's boilers, pumps, ejectors, condensers, "the maze of teeth [on] the great twelve-foot bull gear . . . hobbed in spirals, or helices, across the gear wheel's rim." What, he wondered, was the net effect on man of such machines? Would the jittery 20th Century eventually learn to relax in a "kingdom of engines?" Ed Greenewater laughed and said, "Goddamn it, don't take it so hard, Second." The Chief grunted and went on reading...
...special assemply meeting in New York today to consider the Palestine problem seems inevitably headed for a maze of blind alleys. Great Britain proposed this committee-constituting sessions so that the UN regular assembly in September might receive its own report on Palestine, emphasizing, no doubt, the difficulties facing the mandatory power to date. And in a desperate play to break the issue wide open, Arab League delegates will insist that today's meeting immediately cut short British control and declare Palestine independent. But this is only one of several obscuring political issues; the UN's true task...