Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present course uses a teletype, which is just a typewriter connected to a computer, and an automatic slide screen. Blocks of text, tables and diagrams are flashed to the student on the screen. The teletype taps out accompanying question and problems...
...country and go exploring in the woods. He has a pilot's license, a brown belt in judo. Sometimes, during a dinner at a friend's house, he will excuse himself and stand on his head in the corner for five minutes. Exuberantly boyish, he likes to slide down banisters or vault over platform railings to shake hands. He drinks only moderately-wine with meals, an occasional aperitif or whisky. But he despises smoking, which he looks upon, according to one friend, "as the most barbaric habit in the modern world...
...sensational. The Degas Monotype exhibit which has filled three galleries for the last two months is Mrs. Eugenia Janis's Ph.D. dissertation in visual form. The Fogg's 1966 Art Nouveau exhibit was a project for Coolidge's graduate seminar in art museum problems. A grad student made a slide-tape presentation of Poussin's "Birth of Bacchus" and two are now making a movie of Rodin's "Burghers of Calais," starting from the collection of Rodin sculptures left to the Fogg by Grenville Winthrop. In 1965, a graduate student named Michael Fried wrote the introduction to the catalogue...
...first stroke of the qualifying race, however, number four man Fred Fisher jumped his slide. Harvard finished last. After a bitter debate with angry coaches from Princeton and Cornell, Andersen got permission to have the lights enter the finals. They won by seven seats of open water...
...Harvard almost didn't make it to the varsity finals in the afternoon. In the morning qualifying heat, Fred Fisher, number four man in the Crimson shell, jumped his slide on the second stroke of the race, and then caught a crab. Coxswain Brian Sullivan stopped the boat, expecting the referee to start the race over. He didn't and Harvard finished last...