Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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From door to door in Atlanta last week went the Atlanta Journal's Reporter John Keasler; he was out to test the hoarding instinct of housewives. In his bag he had seven pepper grinders and at each door he solemnly told housewives that "ground black pepper will be scarce" and they better buy a grinder and grind their own. In six hours, Reporter Keasler sold his grinders and this week in the Journal he gleefully told how housewives 1) will buy anything if they think it's a bargain, and 2) pay no attention to what salesmen...
...would not be right," muses Christopher, at a time when he is almost bowed to the ground by slander and persecution, "that a man exactly and scrupulously performing his duty to his sovereign, his native land and those it holds dear, should not be protected by a special Providence. And he is!" Aided by this inextinguishable faith, Christopher survives his enemies, but only after a siege of torments as destructive as Christian's in Pilgrim's Progress...
...gift given to the University enabled construction of three rooms on the ground floor of Houghton. But, pending construction, it will be a year before the rare drama books will move into their shiny new glass showcases...
Several new mechanical devices have become a part of the Crimson practice routine. One--an offensive dummy machine--consists of a string of five dummies fastened by airplane cable to a rod at the top and to hooks driven into the ground at the bottom. Jordan used the machine at Amherst, but with chain instead of cable, which has sufficient spring to throw a would-be blocker...
Another addition is a network of ropes spread on a frame about a foot off the ground and divided into squares. The traditional Crowther two-man blocking machine is also on hand; it is named after a former Harvard line coach. Rao Crowther, who served under Dick Harlow and designed the machine...