Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long ago, the girls at Vassar College had rules governing everything from smoking to being chaperoned. Now Vassar's 1,450 almost-women hustle off alone to New Haven, Yalemen streak into Poughkeepsie, and everyone freely (or almost) trips across the road for martinis. Yet if behavior has changed, the school's general criterion regarding it has not: the student handbook says, "The college expects every student to uphold the highest standards." While reviewing the book last fall, the student government got to wondering: What are the "highest standards" nowadays...
...crack at even more interesting jobs. Since its orbit will be slightly but measurably disturbed by the gravitational attraction of all the other passing planets, its waverings can be used to check the mass of individual planets. It may also detect large meteors that chance to streak close by. It may point to far-out, undiscovered planets, or even to dark, invisible stars. Its most radical use, Dr. Lowther figures, will be to check the inverse-square law, which says that the strength of light and gravitation diminishes inversely with the square of the distance from their source. This...
...eared formula for Irish comic fiction: to one seedy slice of life from an impoverished Irish boyhood add one outrageous old character who swears a blue streak, acts like a freak, and is lovable as all get out. Stir in plenty of Irish whisky, a peck of troubles, assorted downtrodden womenfolk, a hard-drinking priest, plenty of disputatious talk about the church...
HANOVER, N.H., May 9--Harvard's 12-game winning streak, longest in its history, finally ended today as Dartmouth defeated the Crimson...
...varsity baseball team travels to Dartmouth this afternoon to engage the always eager and often proficient athletes of Hanover in a diamond contest this afternoon. The team is riding on the crest of a 12-game winning streak, but could run into trouble with the unpredictable Big Green...