Word: smoot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jeanne L. Smoot '93-94, who described herself as "surprised, shocked and dismayed," said that when she took a year off from Harvard, she specifically looked forward to patronizing Tommy's on her return...
...hang out [at Tommy's]. You can just be, for long periods of time," Smoot said...
...anticipation of the announcement, an overflow crowd had crammed into the meeting of the American Physical Society in Washington last week, and they were not disappointed. "If you're religious, it's like looking at God," proclaimed the leader of the research team, George Smoot, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley. Princeton astrophysicist David Spergel, who had recently co-authored a theory that was demolished by the COBE results, cheerily admitted, "We're dead. But this is great stuff . . . It's the most important discovery in cosmology in the past 20 years...
More than ever, trade is the key to prosperity. The recession of 1931 became the Great Depression of 1932 after the Smoot-Hawley tariffs contributed to the collapse of world markets. Since trade accounts for 25% of U.S. GNP today, a trade war would trigger a depression that would make the present downturn look like a minor blip...
...writing of the swastika was "heinous and anachronistic," said Jeanne L. Smoot '93, a Lowell House resident...