Word: regular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These "Lilliputian stars" do not glow like regular stars; the pressure and temperature inside them are not high enough to support the thermonuclear reactions that keep stars hot. But they need not be cold. "The heat to support life," said Shapley, "would come from their interiors, and they would not be dependent on a sun as we are. In such bodies, radioactive thorium or potassium might provide a source of energy...
...addition to his regular regional coverage, the Farm Journal's Streeter urges his home-office staff of 15 farm-savvy editors ("the best that money can lure and scouting can turn up-men and women with missionary spirit, who are anxious to help improve life on the farms") to play hooky from the magazine's comfortable building in downtown Philadelphia and roam the country. Streeter himself still likes to drop in unannounced on a farmer, politely decline the invitation into the parlor, and spend hours in the kitchen talking crops...
...sections in one of their large introduction courses, to be directed by an "experienced" Faculty member. In the special section, or "workshop," as Bruner calls it, students would do both accelerated course work and independent research. After Freshman year, students would continue various workshops until graduation, taking only three regular courses. These later would be independent from courses, and would "prepare the student for his senior theses...
...team will play ten (or possibly eleven) singles and five doubles in both matches, although only six and three count for EIL standings. Pete Smith is at seventh singles, but may not see action in the doubles because Bob Schwartzman, his regular partner, cannot make the trip. Custer will be in the eighth spot, followed by Langden Smith, Chute, and Briggs, in no particular order...
...White '25, chairman of the Social Relations Department, said that "we did not realize the problem until quite recently, and will begin right away to encourage more Faculty members to become advisers. He pointed out that regular professors have "so many demands on their time already that they hesitate to take on the additional burden...