Word: ticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freshmen who wish to find out what makes Harvard College tick, there is no better solution than the CRIMSON competition which begins on Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock...
...crowd of amateurs. But you will be frankly surprised at the smoothness of the production, smoother than most glamour-musicals. The songs are done to a turn. There are no individual stars, but the revue is such a cohesive unit that your attention is kept right to the tick of the moment and you never start praying that the star will take...
...College, Chicago), would like to explain science to the average citizen, dispel its "mysteries and marvels." In his latest book, Invitation to Experiment, published last week (Dutton; $2.50), he lures his readers into kitchen and bathroom, where they can dope out for themselves "the things that make the universe tick." With clever drawings and photographs, he simplifies molecular motion, gravitation, optics, everything in physics up to (but not including) relativity. Samples...
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...three greatest automobile producers in the U. S.; after long illness; in Great Neck, Long Island. Son of a railroad engineer, Machinist Chrysler in 1905 bought an automobile with $700 savings, a $4,300 loan, kept taking it apart and reassembling it until he found what made it tick. In 1911 he resigned a $12,000-a-year job as general manager of American Locomotive Co. to work for Buick at half the pay. Two-fisted, paternal Tycoon Chrysler drove himself and his men, thought "the one reasonably sure way to get ahead was to do just a little...