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...weeks we swam daily in the "poisoned lagoon" and walked hip-deep by the hour in the "radioactive water." Poppycock ! Over two years ago the scientists reported that a man living for months on twice-A-bombed Bikini would be exposed to radioactivity roughly equivalent to one chest X...
Crimeds "Mister X and Mister Y" mingled with the Dartmouths for several days, listened to their secret plans for revenge on the Crimson, and then tripped back to Cambridge to share the secrets with Harvard...
Agassiz's Ghirlandajo Room will resemble a bank Tuesday and Wednesday for Radcliffe's annual Pay Day, at which Annex students mark organizations lists with X's next to the clubs of their choice and put the appropriate dues into envelopes...
Dean Bowie said "that religion can only be real when each man espouses that which he himself believes." Let us go a step farther and say that the same is true in mathematics, so that if a man cannot accept the fact that 2 x 2 equals 4 because "he himself does not believe it," then let him choose any number he may please...
Fire! Then Murphy counted by seconds: "X minus 10 . . . 9 . . . 8 . . ." When he reached "5," Rosen ordered: "Fire!" A man at the control board pushed a switch, setting off the rocket's igniter. The rocket was not supposed to go off until "zero," but as Commander Murphy chanted "4 . . . 3 . . ." an enormous, fiery blast broke out from under its fins. For a fraction of a second, the rocket hesitated. For another fraction it rose slowly. Then it rose like a streak, as if an irresistible force had picked it off the earth and tossed it into the sky. Behind...