Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems to be as heartily detested by teachers as by students. Like breakfast on a camping trip, the offerings at this time are less plentiful than nourishing. Mathematics for poets (Nat. Sci. 114) offers a sampling of what is new and exciting in mathematics, something which concentrators have to wait years for. A full-year course, Bio. 100, systematizes departmental offerings in evolution. Ec. 133, on the economy of Soviet Russia, gives a foundation for deciding whether we are ahead of or behind the Russians when it comes to wheat surpluses...
Author Ferber gives low marks to writers who wait for inspiration to strike, tries to pound out 1,000 words every day of the week. She is justly proud that all of her bestsellers are still in print and that the early ones have been read by four generations. Shortly she hopes to post one milestone that few other authors have reached in their lifetimes; in just four years, her first book will legally be in the public domain...
...business firms that discriminate against Negroes in their personnel practices. There are rent strikes against slumlords who refuse to repair Negro tenements. There is the "sit-in" technique and its myriad variations: the "swim-in" to integrate pools, the "wade-in" at beaches, the "pray-in" at churches, the "wait...
...Damned Big." With such ammunition, foreign aid critics could hardly wait to assault the bill on the House floor. Cried Iowa Republican H. R. Gross: "The day and the hour are at hand to begin ending this foolish notion that it is within the capability of the American people to solve all the problems of the world." Florida Democrat James Haley hoped that Congress would kill "this gigantic boondoggle...
...alive, but Lederberg reasons that if the enzyme shows up in the dust of Mars, its presence must mean that microscopic living organisms exist-or have recently existed-on the distant planet just as they do on earth. The actual identification of these creatures will have to wait for larger, more elaborate spacecraft. But in the meantime, to ensure that Mars is not contaminated by earthly microbes carried there aboard the multivator, Lederberg is working on a technique for sterilizing his life detector...