Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those who are trapped over at Radcliffe at this hour or don't mind a brisk walk for weekend exercise, Associate Professor Hartz expounds liberal thought in Soc. Sci. 118, Democratic Theory and its Critics, in Longfellow Alumnae Hall. This is one of the most stimulating courses in the University; Hartz is one of the four or five best lectures around...
...want a 9 o'clock class the morning after a weekend, but those who dare have their pick of sparsely filled classrooms and some excellent courses to boot. Dr. Taubes, a visiting professor from Hebrew University in Jerusalem who seems to be giving almost every other course in the catalog this year, will lecture in Humanities 134, "Freedom and the Spirit of Heresy." While this hour could be profitably spent by those concerned with academic freedom or Father Feency, care should still be exercised in picking a course given by an unfamiliar professor...
...midnight. All at once the analyst does a rushing (or is it Russian?) business at his office. After 278 pages of analytic questions and seductively couched replies from female operators, the poor analyst is almost ready for the crazy wagon himself. Good nervous stuff to wake up a sleepy weekend. New York, incidentally, still stands firm at book...
Returning from a uranium-prospecting jaunt in the barren countryside of Queens land, Australia one day last month a jeepload of weekend prospectors bogged down in a creek. Four got out to push while a fifth, Timberman Norman McConachie, idly strolled along the creek bank with a Geiger counter. He spotted a promising rock and put his counter to it. The needle jiggled up to 2,500 on the dial. With darkness falling, the five went home to the little mining town of Mount Isa. Three days later they were back, with three others, to check thoroughly on nearby rocks...
...Invited his Cabinet to a sport-shirt Cabinet meeting and picnic at Camp David, the presidential weekend retreat near Thurmont...