Word: proceeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when it is hot, or precisely during summertime when the blood boils in my veins, or during sleepless nights when I work until early morning. I always carry pencil and paper with me, since at certain moments on the saddle of a horse or leaning on a fence, I proceed with work under...
...college students know. Based partly on the theories of Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, it involved symbolic logic and sentence calculus. "Logically valid conditionals and bi-conditionals, or the implications they embody," blithely explained the professor, "give rise not only to rules of sound inference-by which to proceed step by step through an argument-but to overall plans of attack which can result in various strategies of proof." With that in mind, the class proceeded to translate a series of statements into equally valid equations: e.g., "The White Sox win, or the Yankees win. The Yanks...
Said Red of his prospective opponents: "Let these hams primp their feathers and strut their plumes. I will proceed to maltreat and obliterate them. I will turn loose such terrific voltage and velocity and elliptical trajectory that when it lands on the cleft of the chin it will tear loose their medulla oblongata from the pericranium, cure them of chronic dandruff and knock out four of their impacted wisdom teeth." Whereupon Wild Red went into the ring and was promptly disqualified by the referee for refusing to break a hold when ordered. Wild Red took a deep breath and applied...
...Class will then assemble on Widener's steps for its picture and subsequently proceed with its families to Eliot House courtyard for cocktails and lunch...
Seniors, their guests, dates, and parents will leave Lamont Library at 8 p.m. for the annual cruise on the S.S. Boston Belle. Accompanied by a special motorcycle escort provided by the local police, the buses will proceed to the Belle's pier for an evening of water-bound wining and dancing...