Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Radcliffe girls don't like exercise. They don't like archery, sailing, bowling, body mechanics, or modern dance. Given a chance, most of them would shirk their two years, two hours a week of athletics. This, at least, is what Radcliffe gym authorities suspect. To make athletics requirements escape-proof, the Gym Department has plugged loopholes so thoroughly that even the more athletic girls suffer...
When Palomilla had crept offstage, Professor Wiener pointed out that "this is a simple animal," and described some of Palomilla's more modern deseendents. Then he leaned over at the audience and said the time was gone when we could afford to make machines for the sake of making machines, that to avoid a society of "R. U. R." we would have to start worrying about the moral value of the machines, deciding whether they were good or bad. "The engineer must become more and more a poet," said Professor Wiener, and Palomilla buzzed once more, quietly, behind its curtain...
Desa and his two co-owners have set a price of $100 on their auto, and will reduce the price four dollars every day until it is sold. Desa says he "expects to learn a great deal" from the marketing experiment. Just how much he will make on the car, however, is uncertain. He added on a pessimistic note, "If we get no offers, we will give her away on the fourth of June...
...various sports, went down to Yale to look around, and came out with the conclusion that informality need not mean lack of organization. Things could be kept comfortably unregimented and voluntary and yet still be arranged well enough so that people would at least show up for games and make some activity possible...
Harvard College was too big for the gentlemen on the Council then. In a very large, impersonal group the students found it hard to make friends and tended to ban together in small cliques of men with their own special interests and positions. The most valuable element of college living was absent, they said, because a student couldn't meet men of diverse backgrounds and interests...