Word: rubbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...administration faces a problem of overcrowding in the Houses, a group of incoming freshmen will be denied the physical associations of the Yard. Thus a new problem will arise. For the sense of class, defined by F. Skiddy von Stade, Jr. '38, Dean of Freshmen, as the "opportunity to rub shoulders with so many varied fellows who are just as green as you" must suffer. It is a long walk from Prescott St. to a friend's room in Mower...
...days of horses and spears, the feat was reasonably difficult, but today great motorcades of oil-rich princes of Araby chase the oryx across the desert with barbaric howls and the roar of powerful engines. One emir organized a 300-car hunt. Now the oryx has retreated into the Rub' al Khali (empty quarter) of Southern Arabia, where at most 100 survive. Talbot does not think they will survive for long. The same emir is after them hell-bent with airplanes...
...rate of 500 gs per second; 40 gs for 1/5 of a second, building up at 1,500 gs per second; 25 gs for one second; building up at 600 gs per second. * One of them: "Siberian Tiger Steak." Recipe: "Take a one-vertebra thickness of Tbone, rub with sodium glutamate, powdered ginger, powdered mustard, garlic, thyme and cumin seed before broiling...
Selby has wangled gloves for a kids' baseball team, taught a Scottish bride-to-be how to season steak before broiling (rub on hot mustard, top with hickory salt), found aquariums for some boys who had brought a batch of snakes back from camp. He has had some failures, too. He had no solution for the woman who wrote: "Sheriff coming to foreclose tomorrow. Please send $4,000 in cash," and he was unable to finance a trip to the Canadian wilds for a would-be Davy Crockett who wanted to kill himself...
...positive side, Geneva loaded the scientists with new ideas. Said one U.S. official: "You can't rub that many good brains together without getting sparks." Among the many sparks...