Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot that "strikes at the roots of the House system." And Master Finley, whose record in the field of verities also cannot be underestimated, has observed with his usual good humor that "one student told me he had a little more privacy but a lot less hot water...
...father Lawton and Brandon de Wilde as his (overwritten, overdirected) son. The daughter of the Lawton household--a perceptive character study by the way; score one for Mr. Lamkin--wants to marry Mr. Scott's character for his money, but is torn by an enormous letch for a hot water heater salesman. Diana van der Vlis is excellent in this role, and Larry Hagman is good as her stud. Ruth Hammond is conventional but highly competent in a conventional character role...
Managing at Harvard is distinctly different from the stereotyped impressions of a high school manager. Here the manager is neither locker room attendent nor water boy. Rather, he is equivalent to the business manager of a professional team...
Many of those who did move out were reportedly disillusioned. "One student told me he had a little more privacy, but a lot less hot water," said John H. Finley '25, Master of Eliot House...
...delight and despair of the technological world. Beginning with a design for a ten-story apartment house that he hoped would be dropped from a Zeppelin on the North Pole, he designed projects ranging from a house that was hung from a duralumin mast to bathrooms with no running water (only an air hose squirting 90% air, 10% water, no soap needed). Among his other Dymaxion ("dynamic" plus "maximum service") products have been a three-wheel, rear-engined automobile and a house that can be stowed away in an aluminum container. None of them ever went into mass production. Bucky...