Word: outwits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Competition was never tougher than on Monday afternoon. Desperately trying to outwit fellow upperclassmen (the Freshmen were definitely outnumbered) he saw that in order to meet any girls at all he would have to get an angle. He decided to use the good name of the CRIMSON (a newspaper, $6.00 a year, $7.00 mailed...
...actor who revels in Hamlet; she is a devoted wife who enjoys an occasional flirtation. The swift destruction of Poland halts their theatre careers and they become enrolled in the underground movement. From there on the film concerns the extremely clever plotting of the group of actors to outwit the Gestapo and a fake Polish envoy...
Poetry. Most distinguished poem of the year was W. H. Auden's The Double Man ($2), a brilliant attempt to outwit the age's prevailing schizophrenia, and to focus at least a statement of the problem of evil and of the possibility of hope. All this it managed in verses as clear and casual as The New Yorker's, though wittier. Louis MacNeice published his collected poems ($2.50). The one durable translation was Robert Fitzgerald's Oedipus at Colonus ($1.50), which made clear that Sophocles was not, as other translations suggest, an unsuccessful Victorian imitator...
...worry, because the machine is built not to replace but to supplement present sources of electricity. When the wind turbine is running full-blast the power company can reduce its consumption of dammed waters, saving them for dry or windless spells. Engineers' big problem, in fact, was to outwit too much wind: a sudden gale could raise the turbine's output in three seconds from 1,000 to 3,000 kilowatts, overloading an unbraked generator. Minimum needed wind speed is 18 m.p.h., and 30 m.p.h. is ideal...
...Delaware Federal court last week, Judge John Biggs Jr. stared thoughtfully at a demonstration of spiral waves, "croquignole" waves, the grotesque spindles, rolls, clamps and gadgets used in 83,000 U. S. beauty shops to help straight-haired women outwit nature. If the display looked frivolous, the lawsuit behind it was not: at stake was some...