Word: originality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost dark in the gambling house by the bridge, but a fantan game is going on. Chinese and Nungs (residents of Moncay region, born in Indo-China but of Chinese origin and speaking the Cantonese dialect) are putting their piasters on what they think is the winning number. Little shops are open, too. Come what may, these people are not going to Haiphong. If the French pull out and the Communists move in, they expect to keep on doing business...
...judgment of the Harvard Radio Network origin, I would award; a sharp rap of the knuckles to University Hall for its lack of encouragement and faith in the possibilities of a new idea a large decanter of radioactive vinegar to the Maintenance Department for its exorbitant bille, elasped hands over an empty chair to the CRIMSON for its skill at artificial insemination, and four buckets of high grade admiration to past and present members of the Network...
Also, taking a long-range view, the student body at the College now has become more heterogeneous in nature and origin than it was 50 years ago. The 1100 students in each incoming class now come from diverse educational, geographic, social, economic, religious, and racial backgrounds. Their varied standards of value are more likely to clash, and their college-time troubles are more numerous than in the days of President Eliot. Clearly an advising problem is created here, as well as by the factors mentioned above...
False pregnancy, said the doctors, is mental in origin. All their patients had become overanxious, and said it was because they had tried in vain to conceive. Some had wanted a child to secure a husband's wavering affections or to prove themselves as "complete women." Usually their background included insecurity and tension, as well as frustration, and sometimes even a need for punishment. Thus beset, the mind took refuge in "pregnancy" which the body simulated...
...matter how interesting planets may be as niches for intelligent life, they are mere dust specks on the cosmological scalf. Hoyle and his Cambridge theorists are more concerned with the origin of the stuff out of which the galaxies were formed. When they consider such matters, they zoom to levels of mathematics where few can follow...