Word: stone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard faculty members. The CRIMSON's May Day editorial, though seriously inaccurate, has had the valuable effect of making us aware of our special problem of relationships with other student organizations. We will do our best in the future to put this new awareness into operational effect. Gregory B. Stone, Pres. Guido F. DiMeo, Treas. Theodore H. Elliott, Jr., Clerk
...recording is very good, especially for a company that has not had uniform success; the slightly blurred effect is intended to approximate the resonance of a stone church, which it does, for better or worse, depending on one's taste. Listened to in sections, this is a satisfying record, and is certainly worth owning, if only for the Stabat Mater...
GUTHRIE B. STONE Honeoye...
Fearing the indignation of the British public if the ancient stones were damaged during restoration, the ministry is taking no chances. One stone, 4 ft. thick and weighing 45 tons, was known to have cracks, but no one knew whether they went deep enough to weaken the stone so it would break if lifted. To find out, the ministry called on Britain's atomic research station at Harwell. The scientists put 24 grams of sodium carbonate in a reactor and exposed it to neutrons until it became fiercely radioactive. They took it to Stonehenge by truck...
...films showed nothing at all, indicating that the ancient stone was fairly sound. A lifting cradle was built around it and a powerful crane hoisted it gingerly out of the ground, doing in a few minutes the job that a tribe of skin-clad men had done with panting slowness 3,000 years...