Word: switch
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...Harvard’s dirty little secrets is the source of its color, crimson. The story with which most Harvard students and alumni are familiar is that the university once used magenta as its colors, but after a debate amongst students pushed the issue to a vote, the university switched its colors to crimson on May 6, 1875.Another piece of Harvard folklore contends that future university president Charles W. Eliot, while a student rower, distributed crimson scarves to his fellow rowers so that spectators could distinguish Harvard crew from the competition in the Regatta of 1858. After he served...
...electricity could receive WHRB’s programming. Throughout the 1955-56 school year, WHRBies fought to get their station onto the FM airwaves to service a larger audience. Though the path had been partly paved by Princeton’s radio station, which had already switched to FM, Harvard Radio faced an uphill battle to get off the wires and on the air.In February 1956, WHRB President Geoffrey M. Kalmus ’56 announced that the station might begin to make the switch to FM in the next year. Though he claimed that the move wouldn?...
...Flynn Boyle. When he got his job at Second City, the improv group sent out the former high school linebacker in a troupe separate from hyper Saturday Night Live comedian Chris Farley's. "There are certain energies you just need to separate," he explains. A few minutes in, we switch tables at the restaurant because his shoulder feels pinned against the wall, his chair leg is boxed in by a depression in the concrete floor and, he explains, he can't move enough...
...Hirshberg. "It's a disastrous situation for farmers with a cost structure based on 2006 energy costs." The only silver lining, he says, is that it has helped some dairy farmers recognize that organic is the way to go. But many are daunted by the time it takes to switch to organic production: three years for a farm and one year...
...Heckling the man who was about to cut their taxes by $100 a week was not this crowd's style. Where a property salesman employs a gavel, Costello does a PowerPoint floor show with happy hands and a jerky delivery. You can never predict when Costello's number will switch from the piano of crisis to the forte of triumph. So an audience tends to ride out the bumps with him. "Where the bloody hell were you?" Costello shrieks, referring to an era of high indebtedness when Labor leader Kim Beazley was in charge of the nation's finances. Soon...