Word: float
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major educative enterprise. Indeed I could say of myself that I fied to The CRIMSON because I was bored with the curriculum. And one of the innovations of our period, the so-called student vagabond column, which criticized courses and commented on them, was based on our desire to float around among a number of different courses in the hope at last of turning up a stimulating man. Now that I am on the other side of the academic fence, I realize that we must have been a rather insolent bunch of students and have pained our teachers--although...
...showed the same capacity for getting things done in his two years (1947-49) as boss of the World Bank. When he took over, the bank had sold no bonds, made no loans, was all but falling apart. McCloy built enough confidence in the bank to float $250 million in bonds in the U.S., lent $650 million to eight nations after satisfying himself that they were good risks. "This is a bank, not a relief agency," was his attitude...
...improve, say the space doctors, but not enough to permit their wearers to work freely in a vacuum for long periods of time. Dr. Fritz Haber of the School of Space Medicine believes that the whole space-suit idea will have to be abandoned. If space men want to float around outside their space ship (as they did in the movie, Destination Moon), they will have to stay inside rigid cylinders and do their work by remote-control devices operated from inside...
When several of the dogs had survived for two years or more with plastic valves and no ill effects, Georgetown sponsored Dr. Hufnagel's work and the U.S. Public Health Service helped with funds. The valve, as perfected, is made of Plexiglas and contains a float the size of a mothball which rises and slips into one of three sockets in the side of the valve sleeve on the heart's upbeat, when blood is forced into the aorta. When the heart relaxes between beats, the ball falls into a seat and stops blood from leaking back into...
...lovely sisters, a father with his son and daughter. Among the figures are bronze flowers, bugs, dogs and a fat, barnyard goose. The whole group stands in a polished, dark granite pool, each statue set on a slender stalk above water level, so that they seem to drift and float across the calm water. Overlooking the figures, Sculptor Milles has placed a merry-looking angel standing guard with a flute and with head cocked attentively...