Word: roome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Room rents in all House suites will rise about 15 per cent next fall, while all freshman rooms will have a uniform rent scale, Dean Monro announced yesterday...
...heady gala: the annual poetry-reading contest. Fired by this year's contemporary topic (windows), an astounding 22,427 waka fanciers had submitted the stirrings of their muses. Eleven of the 15 winners were able to join the imperial family in the palace's drafty West Room to hear professional chanters drone the formal. 31-syllable verselets. The Emperor, who is above the burly of competition, had again delighted all by submitting a waka himself. Five times, a chanter intoned the tiny poem...
...Diego pump is radically different in many ways. Instead of being plugged into an electric outlet (an explosion hazard in the operating room), it gets its power from the pressure of tap water. This is converted by the reciprocating-engine principle into a pump action, giving pulsatile pressure in four Plexiglas chambers. In each of these is a rubber bladder corresponding to one of the heart's own chambers. The bladders are paired (like the auricles and ventricles) and they contract and expand in a rhythm like the heart's. In an additional chamber, corresponding to the lungs...
...orphan no longer. Last Sunday he sat in the congregation of his new church-Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church-and listened attentively to the sermon of its Scottish-born pastor, the Rev. David Read. Afterward, puffing a pipe in the sun-filled living room of his modern apartment on Manhattan's East Side, the onetime pagan explained his new position...
...Lakers checked in at Charleston's Kanawha Hotel. The hotel clerk refused to give a room to Baylor and his Negro teammates, Ed Fleming and Alex ("Boo") Ellis. Angrily, the whole squad stalked out, registered at a Negro motel. "They were not even polite at the hotel,'' Baylor fumed. "They told us we couldn't even get in a halfway decent restaurant...