Word: potted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mile-long railroad tunnel beneath the Continental Divide, its western portal across a bridge from the Winter Park lodge. They walked in about 30 yards, sat down in the middle of the tracks with a huge bong, and proceeded to get blown away. Jim, who does not smoke pot, stayed outside in the parking lot, looking at the stars, when from far down the valley he heard the forlorn 'woooooo' of a diesel train horn. He walked across the bridge to the mouth of the tunnel and said, "Ah, you guys, you better get out of the tunnel. There...
...failed to mention that unlike the "melting pot" of the U.S., Canada is a "mosaic" where individual cultures can and do survive. With all our varied pasts let's hope that we will have a common future and, quoting Alexander Pope, "All are but parts of one stupendous whole...
...with HUTV, Harvard's closed-circuit cable television. The cable is the ward of the telecommunications branch of the Harvard Office of Information Technology (OIT). Right now two student shows are being broadcast live over the cable weekly. One program, Noon Hits, which got rolling last fall, is a pot pourri of news, entertainment and university issues. It is broadcast on Thursdays from OIT's Video Production Center in the depths of the Kresge building on the Medical School campus...
...show lamented the decline in popularity of the pot-boiler technological science fiction that flourished in the '30s, as exemplified by the novels of E.E. "Doc" Smith, from whose "Lensman" books the convention takes its name. Many SF fans seem to look back fondly to this era of "space opera," and resent its being dismissed as "that old Buck Rogers stuff." At the same time, this genre has been revived, updated a bit and popularized by the movie "Star Wars...
Scarcely a decade ago, such a welter of tongues would have been unspeakable in an American public school. For more than a century, the great melting-pot theory decreed that foreign-speaking children be taught solely in English to speed their assimilation into the mainstream. The children of 50 million immigrants were forced to master English that way. Some 22 states even outlawed teaching in foreign languages...