Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduation certificate as a democracy by peacefully voting out of office a regime of a quarter of a century's standing, the Turks again live in a society characterized by the over-the-shoulder glance to see who may be listening. Midnight Cable. Good or bad, the shape of Turkey today is the shape given it by Adnan Menderes. His energy is seemingly inexhaustible. Out of bed by 6 a.m. at the latest, he heads off without breakfast on an hour to two-hour hike that invariably includes at least one hill. His workday...
Canceling his plans for a flying visit to London to vote in the House of Commons' economic debate (see FOREIGN NEWS), Sir Winston Churchill, 83, taking his ease on the French Riviera, unwittingly stirred up a spate of rumors that he is in bad shape. A member of his household had explained Sir Winston's absence by pointing out that Churchill was "rather tired." A swift investigation by newsmen showed that Statesman Churchill is energetic enough to paint, read, play gin rummy and eat zestfully, in a packed vacation schedule. Sample lunch: hors d'oeuvres, duck with...
...pupil, scientists may come in any size or shape, but "they are interesting only in science, talk about science all the time, have a mild temper and patience beyond endurance." The poor wretch of the laboratory "doesn't hardly ever have time to fix his self up, he is so busy experimenting. Usually single-if married not many kids, if any. But a real brain. Doesn't hardly ever go to bed." "I believe," said one student, "the typical scientist would stay in his little laboratory most of the time except to eat and go to conventions...
Three Doughnuts. Britain's ZETA (Zero-Energy Thermonuclear Assembly), which was shown last week by Sir John Cockcroft at Harwell atomic laboratory, looks like three 10-ft. doughnuts laced together like links of a chain. The central horizontal torus (scientific word for a doughnut shape) is a ring-shaped aluminum vacuum chamber with a 39-in. bore. The two vertical doughnuts linked into it are the iron cores of a transformer. When a small amount of deuterium gas is fed into the evacuated torus and a heavy electric current is shot through the transformer, an even heavier current (this...
Arkley said the slope at Brown was "in good shape and held up fairly well. It was not too icy." The Crimson was followed by Tufts, Northeastern, American International College, and Brown. Keene Teachers College and New England College tied for sixth, while Boston University, Amherst, and Boston College brought up the rear...