Word: racks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yearbooks are all alike in their tedium, and no one likes them, unless it is Mother. Each year the editors of these publications rack their brains for something "new." Inevitably, much the same thing issues forth. This year the novelty, according to the editors, is what is called "an editorial approach midway between the reportorial and the historical." "Yearbook writers," they say, "found themselves going beyond the dry facts to set down on paper the atmosphere of Harvard ... the Yearbook has presumed for itself a journalistic role rarely associated with college annual, that of interpreter as well as recorder...
...simple as a wheelbarrow. It has a metal tube packed with solid propellant and feathered with four fins. The working parts come packed in a cylinder of strong waterproof cardboard which can be attached as the "warhead" and filled with water or chemicals. When fired from a simple launching rack, the rocket flies more than a mile. When it hits, its liquid cargo splashes in fine spray, drenching a 50-yd. circle. Rockets carrying 10 gallons cost about $35 each. California and U.S. forest fire fighters are interested. They do not hope to use rockets to put out full-grown...
...East Air Service Command. He saw less than an ambitious airman would want to of the shooting match, but he continued to qualify himself for research and development. He learned something of the shoestring tragedies of R and D when a B-17 fitted with a new flare-dropping rack that he had designed caught fire mysteriously over Cairns, Australia and crashed, killing its crew. The investigation did not establish conclusively that his rack was responsible, but thereafter the device was regarded with open suspicion; no one but Ben and a co-designer felt nervy enough to fly with...
...this all. Wolff along with Frederic Rzewski '58 then appeared as composer-performers in an Invention for Two Pianos (Mar. 27, 1957, 9:15-9:25 p.m.). They each put a sheet of paper with some jottings on the rack and proceeded to punch out a random series of notes vaguely reminiscent of the chicken-pecking school of composition. From time to time they stopped, glared at each other for a while, nodded, and then renewed the assault. I was ready to surrender after the first of these skirmishes. It is a shame that Rzewski, a fine pianist and perhaps...
...that does not work out, she will be content to go on singing in the clubs, where she is much in demand. Apparently, in a world of perennially slit skirts and plunging necklines there is a real need for Roberta's ample figure, off-the-rack dresses and cardigan sweaters...