Word: oak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mention of crickets is complete without a comment on its props. For instance, for the spectators there must always, be oak trees for shade, and deck chairs of a low enough pitch fro a mid-game slumber. For the game itself there must be a perfect oval field, sown with the lushest English turf; and for the players, there must be a bat, preferably a finely-sprung precision instrument autographed by some of the legendary greats of cricket. Also there must be compete game uniform, including immaculate white sneakers, white flannels, white shirt, and cap--each player wearing a distinctively...
...been playing basketball this season at Madisonville (Ky.) Junior High, and hopes to play football next fall. Two years ago, despite surgery and X rays, Norman was wasting away with a spreading cancer of the thyroid. Then his doctor got him into the little (30-bed) hospital at Oak Ridge, Tenn., which is set aside for atomic medicine. There, Norman had an "atomic cocktail"-radioactive sodium iodide dissolved in water. The cancer colonies soaked up the iodine; from each radioactive atom, beta particles and gamma rays shot out to destroy cancerous cells. Norman goes back to Oak Ridge regularly...
...Bone cancers are hard to treat because if radioactive elements (such as calcium and phosphorus) settle in hard bone, they also affect the marrow and damage the blood-making cells. At Oak Ridge, doctors and radiologists have just eliminated gallium7 2 as unsuitable for treatment, largely because it takes too long to settle in the bone (and meanwhile loses most of its radioactivity). Next on their list is gallium...
Movie shows in the dining hall every other week are run through the efforts of a very active House Committee. The Committee was also instrumental in starting the Oak Leaf, Adams own news paper. Housemaster David M. Little '18 is extremely happy about this Renaissance of activity. He looks for no particular quality other than general academic competence and a willingness to contribute to the life of the House in its most general aspects and in any variety of ways. "This is a good progressive House", he comments, "definitely forward-looking...
...Territory. The show originates in the twelve-room Johnson house in Oak Park and is concerned with whatever happens to be on the children's minds. They argue over the possibilities of getting a pony or about when, if ever, God sleeps. Sometimes they tackle such moral problems as the one that developed when Pamela let the dog indoors and it ate the family parakeet. There was agonized discussion about whether Pamela had, in effect, killed the parakeet herself or whether the dog alone was to blame. These juvenile soul-searchings have proved so attractive to listeners that, last...