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...first function would wipe out some of the inadequacy of the present Dean's Office system, which is badly overburdened. As a consequence, students who need Dean's Office attention very often get nothing more personal than a stock 15 minute lecture from an unfamiliar assistant dean. The function of coordinating the House's tutorial activity also looks laudable. It will help to keep the undergraduate seminars active and free from uninterested students and incapable instructors...
Such beliefs lead him to take an indulgent view of Kavanagh, a lusty fishmonger who has murdered a servant girl in a swirl of passion. They also lead Ezra to seduce Romilly, the sister of his friend Father Mellowes, simply because he wants to "wipe some of that look of innocence off her face." In long conversations, Ezra and Father Mellowes conclude that the greatest human sin is indifference and that Christ "liked anyone who let themselves be carried away...
...institute's works, often in obscure fields, have mostly been hidden from the public, which has sometimes benefited only indirectly. Example: at the institute in Manhattan, overlooking the East River, famed Microbiologist René J. Dubos first encouraged bacteria to produce poisons to wipe out other bacteria. Dubos' early antibiotics proved of limited value, but his theory and practice are the foundation on which most of the lifesaving science of antibiotics has been reared. It was also at the institute that the late Alexis Carrel, keeping a piece of chicken heart "alive" under glass, added...
...could not, not right now at least. The column presented the arguments of two physicists named Arnold and Szilard both of whom had much to do with the original atomic bomb. Szilard had claimed last April that a Hydrogen-Cobalt bomb would distribute enough radioactivity around the earth to wipe out everybody. Arnold recently disagreed, estimating that for $40,000,000,000 such a bomb could be built, but that the bomb's explosion would leave some areas relatively uncontaminated, some people relatively alive...
Having thus fortified himself against any charge that he was aiding a phony Russian peace offensive, Stassen softened his tone. Stalin, in effect, was urged to change his spots, lay down his gun, wipe the frown off his face, join the club and quit causing trouble in the U.N. Stassen guaranteed that the U.S. would not attack him without provocation. "If you doubt any of the things I say to you," he added, "I believe I can prove each point through . . . further conferences...