Word: wheelerism
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...need to jump all the way across the Atlantic to get this authentic experience? Wouldn’t crossing the Charles suffice? After failing to persuade my Italian class of the academic merits of a field trip to the North End, my teacher, Nives Dal-Bo’ Wheeler, suggested I contact her friend Maurizio Tognetti, who lives in the North End: “If you would like me to put you in touch him…maybe he could give you some useful advice and some further inspiration.”I met Mr. and Mrs. Tognetti...
...expert in nuclear fission who taught at Princeton and the University of Texas and authored five books, physicist John Wheeler--who coined the term black hole--was involved in many of the major scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century. As a member of the Manhattan Project, he collaborated with Albert Einstein and others to create the atom bomb. Unlike some colleagues who agonized over the weapon's awful power, he regretted only that it hadn't been used sooner. He often recalled a letter from his brother, who was later killed in World War II, that read simply, "Hurry...
...school, he threatened to tell everyone that I was a training wheel-dependant a baby. Obviously, I had to defend my honor. After wiping away the requisite tears, I went home that night, told my dad to remove my training wheels, and learned how to ride a two-wheeler. My long division could wait—I had a lot of catching...
...didn’t take long for me to learn how to ride my new pink two-wheeler, but it was many months before I liked Jenny enough to help her with her math homework again. Vinny moved away right before high school, so he never got to see me get my learner’s permit the day I turned sixteen. Determined not to get left behind again, I passed my driver’s test within five months...
...Saturday night contest against Brown, the Harvard women’s basketball team entered the locker room at halftime with a little hop in its step. Freshman Claire Wheeler had just connected on a baseline jumper as the first-half buzzer sounded, and the players exchanged high-fives as they jogged off the court. They knew, though, that coach Kathy Delaney-Smith would have some more serious words for them in the locker room. Describing the first half with “a word I can’t use in print,” the 25-year veteran coach...