Word: randomness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There still remains the possibility that a small number of students will be singled out for some sort of punishment. That course of action is foolish and illogical. It is also unjust. The random selection of scapegoats would foster rancor instead of reflection, and would create martyrs where there is now simply an array of advocates...
Frigid Mud. By chilling electronic equipment to cryogenic temperatures, scientists have already been able to reduce troublesome background noise caused by the random movement of atoms within metallic circuit components; the atoms are literally subdued by lower temperatures. Cryogenically cooled infra-red detectors used in astronomy, aerial mapping and antiaircraft missiles are many more times sensitive to heat than those operated at normal temperatures...
...first is induction by random selection from a pool of all draft-eligible men. Although the deans dodged the question of whether this pool should consist of high school, college or graduate school-age men, the CRIMSON has endorsed the Marshall Commission's recommendation that 19-year-olds and all older men holding student deferments should go into the lottery...
There's no way you can ace out your classmates for the good seats up high. The Department of Athletics collects the applications in bundles of 50 as they come in, and then pulls the bundles t random as they make the seat assignments...
...than a Playboy peep show, less glossy but just as sexless. Lust is a popeyed man ogling a barmaid's cleavage, virginity a lacquered ex-stripper trying to look like a wide-eyed schoolgirl caught up in the evil ways of the big city. Usually, there are only random glimpses of breasts and bottoms, although lately the nudies have been edging closer to the limits of pornography with a rash of "sadie-massies" that drag in homosexuality, flagellation, voyeurism, lesbianism and assorted orgies. Among some aficionados of the nudies, the subcategories are known as "roughies" (breasts and violence), "ghoulies...