Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jordan, Beirut Bureau Chief John Mecklin found himself circling over Amman in a plane piloted by King Hussein (see COVER) and preparing for a crash landing. With the nosewheel jammed, the young King flew round and round for 20 minutes, fiddling with the controls before he made a rough landing...
...whose hair does not curl easily. The props with which Author Treece outfits his plot appear to be as accurate as a mobile museum of medieval antiquities, and he is lavish with local color, mostly bloodred. Some will doubtless regret Treece's crockery-clattering upsetting of the old round table. But the fact is that while good King Arthur could exist only in storybooks, Artos the Bear has enough gristle-and-bone reality to have actually galloped across the misty dawn of British history...
...development of these players, and also the whole team, will depend largely on the spring weather and also on the success of the southern trip. If the team can rapidly round into shape over the week-long southern swing and if the weather this spring is conducive to outdoor play, Barnaby feels that the squad could produce the best tennis seen at the College in many years...
...most constructive effort to examine university education came in the last few minutes, during a meeting of the deans with President Pusey. The subject of the round table talk, "How applied should a University education be?" had appeal to both the public and to educators. But the time spent at the track, the cage, the river, and the rink left little for the Deans. They could do little but generalize and, as President Pusey did, quote from President Eliot--"Truth and right above utility." They were followed by Professor Emeritus Samuel Eliot Morrison in an interesting talk on the "Veritas...
James L. Kincaid '58 and Robert W. Scrivner '57 were one of the five winning teams out of 31 entrants in the New England regional competition at M.I.T. Saturday and Sunday. The judges awarded them ten out of 16 possible ballots in the eight-round tournament...