Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were just trying to be funny, and personally I think Leila Ernst is almost sure of making a big hit in Hollywood," Hobbs declared when pressed by the impostor for an apology, adding that he "wanted the whole mess kept in strict confidence between you and the Lampoon...
...feet Andy McDonough put on his oxygen mask, circled to the northeast, making a mental note to stay away from the field so that he wouldn't "mess up the airport" if the dive wasn't a success. At 27,000 feet he was 15 miles northeast of the field. The outside thermometer registered 33 below. To the northwest, 25 miles away, he could see Niagara Falls. He called the ground: "... will dive from west to east." Then he turned on the fixed movie camera, focussed on the faces of his instruments-altimeter, clock, airspeed indicator, thermometer...
...simple steps taken by the Department would clear up this whole mess. First, some one professor should be made responsible for re-organizing the elementary courses. Math A and Math 2 should adopt more modern texts better organized for what Harvard intends to teach and for the way Harvard intends to teach it. Different sections could be required to do a minimum amount of identical work in that text; and giving the same exam to the whole course would be pressure enough on the instructors to enforce the rule. An advanced section in Math 2 could take care of concentrators...
...Government is trying to make a mystery out of money to confuse the people. They have things in such a mess now that only a wizard can solve it. They must be crazy. Prospectors dig gold out of the ground, sell it to the Treasury, and they turn around and bury it in another hole in Kentucky and hire soldiers to guard it. ... A man should be able to take his ore down to the mint, get the Government to strike off the coins for him and keep the metal that rightfully belongs to him. There would be little...
...Base Hospital is divided into eight services: Surgical, Medical, Laboratory, X-ray, Headquarters, Registrar, Mess, and Dental Corps. Lieutenant-Colonel Lanman, acting for Elliot C. Cutler '09, regular director of the Unit, is in addition Chief of the Surgical Service...