Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boys will sit in the steel stands, paying only a dime of the 30-cent Federal tax fee while PBH pays the rest. A special entrance--gate 21--will receive the settlement house guests...
...money. Comparing the scholarly output of Germany, England, France and the U.S., Abraham Flexner deplored the "wild, uncontrolled and uncritical expansion" in U.S. universities. Newark Merchant Louis Bamberger and his sister Mrs. Felix Fuld gave Flexner $5,000,000 to start a place where a few scholars could just "sit and think." Scientist Vannevar Bush was skeptical: "Well, I can see how you could tell whether they were sitting...
...always. In Washington, D.C., Oppenheimer once interrupted a lecture by a slow-moving ex-pupil: "Well, really, this room is full of people who know the answer to this question. Let's get on." *This view does not sit well with many scientists -- among them Nobel Prizewinner Percy Bridgman, Oppenheimer's ol'd Harvard teacher. Says Bridgman: "If anybody should feel guilty, it's God. He put the facts there...
...sent "him west for his health, engaging Teacher Smith as his companion. It was the boy's first look at New Mexico, and he fell in love with it. Teacher and pupil talked like philosophers, and dressed like prospectors; Robert added to his crystal specimens, and learned to sit a horse...
After a late party, he would frequently sit up most of the night working on some involved problem ("How much sleep do I need? This is like what Mrs. Lenin said about the meat: 'When we are hungry, we cook it five minutes; when we are not hungry, two hours'"). Once, on a date with a coed in the Berkeley hills, he felt the urge to solve a problem in physics, got out of the car to pace up & down, wandered off into the night. On another occasion, emboldened by his own Martinis, Oppenheimer decided to telephone...