Word: thaddeus
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...pretty close to the middle of the galactic plane right now, and yet there has been no major extinction occurrence for millions of years (the last one apparently took place 11 million years ago, wiping out some marine protozoans and mollusks). More damning still, Physicist Patrick Thaddeus, also of Goddard, pointed out that dust clouds are so widely distributed that the Oort cloud should be encountering them practically all the time, not just once every 33 million years; some of the numbers his colleagues used in their calculations, he says flatly, are "just the wrong numbers...
State Auditor is the only position that could likely be captured by a Republican today Michael S. Robertson '57 a Falmouth businessman who ran unsuccessfully against Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 in 1976 is facing John J Finnegan, who was appointed in 1981 after 17-year Auditor Thaddeus Buczko received a judicial appointment...
Your Essay "Where Have All the Insults Gone?" [Aug. 31] reminded me of a classic rebuff uttered by American Congressman and Statesman Thaddeus Stevens. While crossing a mud-covered Lancaster, Pa., street on a wooden plank in the mid-1800s, Stevens confronted a political adversary coming toward him on the same narrow walkway. His rival called out in disdain, "I never step aside for scoundrels!" Stevens quickly stepped back off the plank and into the ankle-deep mud and replied, "I, on the other hand, always...