Word: across
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Results of a student opinion poll taken last week show that 260 of 422 students polled prefer to have the Field House used as a coffee shop. A stronghold of opposition to the change has been Holmes Hall, located across from the Field House, where students fear the noise such a center would produce...
While many another team across the nation can run up gaudy season records against in-and-out opposition, the schools of the rugged Big Ten are cursed by having to play one another Saturday after Saturday. The resulting won-lost marks are often unimposing, but by mid-November the fires of Big Ten competition annually forge a flock of tough, tenacious teams that can meet any squad in the land on even terms. Last week thrice-beaten Michigan State overturned Northwestern, 15-10, and thrice-beaten Illinois did the same to Wisconsin, 9-6, to throw the Big Ten race...
...angstroms*) as the distance between the atoms in the individual sheets (1.42 angstroms). In ordinary commercial graphite, microscopic crystals are jumbled almost at random, but in Pyrographite they are mostly aligned with their sheets parallel (see diagram). This builds up a layered structure that resists the motion of heat across the layers but permits easy passage along them...
...Word. In Miami, Lutheran Pastor E. W. Albrecht, who often wondered "if my message gets across," got a phone call from the thief who swiped the church's tape recorder, learned that the conscience-stricken culprit had decided to return the machine after listening to a recorded sermon on repentance...
...infest the mangrove swamps; 12-ft. sharks cruise the lonely bays. In that unfriendly land, at remote Kuri Bay, a syndicate of Australians, Americans and Japanese called Pearls Proprietary Ltd. is turning out a product that has the world's jewelers agog. The product: fabulous pearls as big across as a 25-cent piece, of gem quality so fine that a Manhattan jeweler recently sold a choker of Kuri Bay pearls...