Word: sackfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John J. Sack '51, the paper's new Radcliffe Bureau Chief, said this was a basic issue. "If Congress granted permission to have stories written about it, or if the White House did, this would be a violent denial of freedom of the press" he said...
...CRIMSON accepted her resignation last night and appointed John J. Sack '51 to the vacancy. The decision to name a Harvard editor as Radcliffe Bureau Chief, was made, according to the executive board, "to avoid attempts by Radcliffe officials to exercise any censorship over news stories about the Annex; Radcliffe cannot threaten Sack with expulsion...
...mythical projectile, described in some ordnance circles as two pounds of cooked oatmeal in a one-pound sack...
Waltari lets his fool rush into every crime a man can commit, and into many of the major scenes of the 16th Century -Michael is present at the Stockholm Massacre of 1520 and the sack of Rome by the troops of Emperor Charles V. He talks with Luther and Erasmus, studies with Paracelsus. In this way, the reader gets alternate doses of high and low life that may be intended, like the hot & cold treatments of a Finnish steam bath, to make him tingle all over. In Waltari overdoses, the treatment brings on numbness...
Among the guns and fire-control apparatus of the after-section are eight inviting bunks. But at high altitude nobody is allowed to "sack out." Reason: an accidental pressure failure would fill the cabin with a frigid blue haze, and the loss of oxygen would kill a man in 30 seconds if he didn't slap on his oxygen mask. A sleeper would be a dead duck. A more earthy problem: the toilet mechanism won't work at high altitude. The most practical makeshift is a bucket, and by unwritten law, the first man who needs...