Word: scatter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What could be done? A yogi sent word that he could clear matters up in 30 minutes: "Ghosts scatter at my very presence," said he. "I can make oranges fly in the air." But the school decided on a new tack, at long last called in a physician. Last week the school was carrying out the doctor's recommendations by tearing down part of the big wall and giving the girls a little more freedom and fun. But just in case medical science failed, it also took the precaution of proclaiming 30 straight days of prayer to ask protection...
...common villains is Nasser's latest propaganda device to try to win the Arab masses. "Brethren in Arabism, brethren in Palestine," cried Cairo's Voice of the Arabs, "imagine all these things which imperialism wishes for you, American imperialism itself. Imagine it is not only intended to scatter one million Palestine Arab refugees, but the intention today is to kill them and annihilate them completely . . . Brethren, imagine your fate after [they] hand you over to your American enemy to annihilate...
...upperclassmen, Gen Ed is also a plan of distribution, a vague set of signposts suggesting where to scatter some courses outside one's major field...
TRANS-OCEAN TV will go from Florida to Cuba. FCC okayed American Telephone & Telegraph Co. plan to send U.S. programs to Cuba via "scatter propagation" system, which deflects TV waves off particles high in atmosphere, transmits them over horizon without relays...
...Life scatter-fire-and-look-for-the-oddities approach manifested in the polls has been explained away as a play for the interest of the Newspapers. which are said to be looking for this sort of thing in yearbooks. Yet in 321, this attitude extends beyond the polls. In all of its essayings into undergraduate life there is a failure to ask why. Even in the mediocre best of the lot, an article on religion at Harvard, the Yearbook holds itself to a straight reporting job, never allowing the fact to flower into truth. As a result, its record...