Word: subbing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that such linguistic artistry wasn't taught earlier. Think of the World War II Navy pilot who had a chance to report, "Have received visual indication of hostile submersible and deactivated its flotation capability." Instead, all the poor linguistic cripple could say was "sighted sub, sank same...
Some time in March, in a chamber 400 feet below the tip of the Great Pyramid of Cheops, Egyptian and American scientists will set up a spark chamber to detect a component of cos mic rays called muons. Actually sub atomic particles traveling close to the speed of light, some of the muons will be energetic enough to penetrate the dense structure of the pyramid and pass through the spark chamber, a device consisting of two horizontal pairs of oppositely charged metal plates. Be cause the muon leaves a wake of ionized gas, which conducts electricity, a spark will jump...
STUDENT: Sir, I can't tell you how pleased I am. I mean, my high school average is 65, I got straight Ds in mathematics, confuse the Norman Conquest with Dday, have a sub-average IQ, and got turned down by every other college in America. Yet in spite of all of this, you've accepted...
Ribicoff said yesterday that Moynihan's plan was one of "the most significant ideas" to come before his Senate sub-committee on government operations, which is investigating urban affairs and he instructed his staff to incorporate it into legislation...
Holton ,as vice-chairman of the Gen Ed Committee and head of the sub-committee on science, is optimistic about the future of the program. "It will help ensure the excellence of Harvard College education as well as Harvard departmental education. If there is not balance and interaction between these two, a college atrophies. Harvard must keep providing the tools for an education as well as for a trade." He notes that increasing numbers of Faculty members have already been induced by the system's flexibility to offer new courses...