Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though slighted on practice time the lightweights' prospects are not as bad as they would seem. The first boat, set at least for today's race, has recorded some good times considering the late conditions. Stroked by Tom Alberg, the eight clocked the mile and a sixteenth upstream course in seven minutes, four seconds on Wednesday...
William G. Weston, professor of Cryptogamic Botany, emeritus, said that he and Edward O. Wilson, associate professor of Zoology, who teaches the other half of Nat. Sci. 8, "certainly do not plan any drastic changes." He said that "although some people seem to feel that the General Education courses are waterd-down for non-concentrators, Nat. Sci. 8 is not and will not be as long as I am around...
...present heir fairly apparent is a great advocate of free enterprise within certain limits set by the state, such as anti-cartel policy. He popularized his Social-Market Economy, a synthesis of welfare coverage and a high degree of freedom for German businesses. Erhard's stocky form and cigar seem almost symbolic of the sucess which rewarded West German reconstruction efforts...
First of all, these two outlooks are made to be appalling immature. They seem all the more so when the exhibition's "naturalistic" section illuminates a paradox which unites these two emotional extremes. Suddenly all the shouting stops, all the drama ends and rigor mortis begins to set in. The least trickle of spontaneous life is suddenly replaced with the dimmest pedantry. The right word is not naturalistic but academic. Here is a depressing union of the accomplished hand and the earthbound...
...naked eye the sun seems a smooth, bright disk. But astronomers have long known that its face is mottled with hot clouds of hydrogen gas, which seem to be the source of some of the radiation that periodically disrupts radio communication, and may have an important effect on the earth's weather. The clouds give off ultraviolet rays on the so-called Lyman-alpha line of the spectrum, midway between visible light and X rays. Since these rays are absorbed by the earth's atmosphere long before they can reach the ground, no earthbound camera has ever been...