Word: papering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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STUDENTS from other universities of no small renown can simply volunteer to write for the paper, to take pictures for the yearbook, to give tours of the campus. But here, everything is a comp. What does "comp" mean, one may quite reasonably ask. "Competition?" No, heaven forbid, not "competition," the comp directors at The Crimson assured us. Not competition but merely "competence." You have to demonstrate that you're friendly enough to give a tour, for instance, or persistent enough to be a journalist...
...council's dedication to fighting bias against gays and lesbians looked great on paper, but when it came to applying it substantively Sunday night, the body waffled...
...protesters said they opposed the reinstatement of ROTC, not only because of the military's homophobia, but also because the military discriminates against women and minorities and discourages "openness and critical inquiry," according to a position paper written by Weissman and distributed at last night's meeting...
Last week's results, while they seemed promising, had a hurried, slapdash quality to them. The jury-rigged experiments were based largely on what researchers had seen in the popular press and copies of the sketchy initial paper by Pons and Fleischmann, which began circulating by fax machine almost at once. At Texas A&M, chemists reported they had measured between 60% and 80% more heat energy coming out of the experiment than had gone in. But they had to try the experiment five times before it worked. They did not even attempt to detect any neutrons being given...
Reynolds recounts that his grandfather was hesitant to cater to the budding cigarette craze in 1911 because he feared that the smoke from the paper wrappers might be harmful. But when scientific tests seemed to prove otherwise, Reynolds made the fateful decision to launch a new brand, Camel...