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...What about it. Why Christianity It's nothing to it. I don't want to talk about Christianity. I'm sitting in my room with my red light on. There's heavy smokum in the air. A smell you only get on Saturday. Music by Mingus, Roach, Blakey, Morgan, Shorten, there notes dancing on the clouds of smokum that's riding through...

Author: By Marion E. Bodian, | Title: White Harvard Students Tutor At A Southern Negro College | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

Therefore we need a policy to shorten the war. It is time to fish or cut bait...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nixon's War Views | 3/4/1968 | See Source »

...monalphabetics (simple, one-alphabet systems, such as the one described in the box, next page), and polyalphabetics (many alphabets used in the same cipher message), Kahn keeps his subject lively and even dramatic. He describes, for example, how cryptology helped get the U.S. into one world war- and helped shorten another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: IURP WKH WURYH* | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...wise solution would be for the Administrative Board to end probation for the demonstrators at midyear. Then the activists would have a fair chance to seek election, no regulations would be violated, and the probation would still have its deterrent effect. But even if the Board does not shorten the term of probation, the purpose and potential importance of the new Advisory Council justify an exception to the rules, and any undergraduate should be eligible for election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elections for The Advisory Council | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

...natural for speed reading, and soon other mechanical devices appeared on the market. They all attempted one of three things: to shorten the time per fixation, to decrease the number of fixations, or to increase the span of words which could be read at each fixation. If almost any person could learn to recognize four words flashed on the screen at 1/100 seconds, shouldn't a person be able to read 24,000 words per minute...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Alexander, | Title: Evelyn Wood: The Evolution of an Idea | 4/27/1967 | See Source »

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