Word: swing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lodover, an ingenious little tractor loader designed for work in close quarters, such as in mines. It can swing a load of dirt overhead from front to back...
...most of the 1930's, Dunster under Greenough got off to the better start. Apparently Greenough promised all-American quarterback Barry Wood an entire entry for himself and his friends if he would choose Dunster. Master Coolidge, as head of the Watch and Ward Society, simultaneously helped the initial swing to the river House by severely fining a Cambridge bookstore for selling banned copies of Lady Chatterly's Lover...
...present English 10, the department's basic survey course, does not really answer either need. While a vast improvement over the old English 1, which raced through English literature, confusing students with a welter of minor names and works, English 10 has ridden the pendulum too far in the swing of reaction. It is mostly a Great Authors course...
...forced to cancel any film showing because of industry pressure (or "crackdown" as you so dramatically phrase it). No film was scheduled for tonight, March 16, 1954, therefore it would have been impossible for us to cancel the film. When it was realized that hour exams are in full swing, that papers are due in many of the large courses, and that Stevenson is giving three lectures this week, we felt that the schedule was too full to warrant a motion picture. ... It is true that we did cancel "Kind Hearts and Coronets." However, we were in no way forced...
Mars floats seminaked, wrapped in its thin blue atmosphere as if in a transparent negligee. Yellow clouds, perhaps of dust, drift across it slowly. The white polar icecaps wax and wane with the swing of the Martian seasons, and its surface changes color, as if with seasonal vegetation...