Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dice game when interrupted at any particular moment. The high point of the series is a show on the new field of topology. Using every sort of trick-from figuring out how a boy can cover his newspaper route without ever retracing his steps, to taking off his vest without removing his coat-Baird gradually gets across the idea that topology is merely "the study of what remains unchanged in a thing," even when the shape of the thing has been completely altered, short of being torn...
...upsetting to travel about this large country to ask what they think a Harvard man really is. Around the corner from the House an outspoken teenager from East Boston will utter a few expletives and say that all Harvard men are, to put it mildly, snobs who wear vests and have ridiculous accents. And in the Midwest a mild fellow will strongly declare that Harvard is filled with shabbily dressed men who have wild ideas and long hair. While these interpretations are oversimplifications, these two types do represent the spectrum of Harvard College. Both the Harvard man with the vest...
News, sports and feature pictures are represented, taken with equipment ranging from mammoth press cameras to vest-pocket miniatures...
...What ho," he muttered briefly, and the great orange dragon on his vest spouted green flames from one lapel to the other. The girl placed a little red cafeteria tray in front...
...What's that you're eating?" I asked the man in the orange dragon vest by way of conversation. The girl poured me some...