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...even against common sense, Albert forged ahead, shoving with both hands and sometimes with his cheek to get his small bulb out where it could shine. As Cooper observes, "The immortal gift of Albert Woods was his capacity for answering [the question of how to be great] with a glorious hotheaded 'Somehow!' " In short, Author Cooper, himself a physicist hiding under a pseudonym, sets off a merry little stink bomb in the sacred precincts of High Science, as if to show that the laboratory atmosphere is not always filled with the ozone of pure disinterestedness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scientist Fiction | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...while, Social Relations was known as a glorious gut, and if attracted many "free-ride boys". The Department has been struggling to cut down this excess enrollment and now reports that the "free riders" are a thing of the past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History & Literature to Social Relations | 4/23/1953 | See Source »

...signing an order banning all demonstrations in Belfast today. Remembering some slight disturbances last March, when a few of the boys worked over some shops and a police station, the Ulster government is wary of a new gathering. And perhaps they're right. It is a glorious sight when the lads of the Sinn Fein go swinging down the road, keeping time to the tap of their shillelaghs on the cobblestones; but feelings do run high...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Erin Go Bragh | 3/17/1953 | See Source »

...General Education Ahf were just a course in expository writing, it would be high on the list of glorious guts. But since it is supposed to be training high school graduates in writing college papers, it occupies a strategic educational position. All other General Education courses look to Ahf for improved student writing, and whatever shortcomings it has weakens the whole G.E. program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: General Education's Stepchild | 2/20/1953 | See Source »

...deeply grateful for this glorious land in which we live. We know it is a land choice above all others-the greatest nation under heaven. We thank thee for liberty-for our free agency, our way of life, and our free institutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words of the Week | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

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