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...wasps that developed success fully into adults. Of the two kinds of wasps that built nests among the instruments, Shinn noticed that only the yellow-and-black daubers used radioactive mud. The nests of the closely related pipe-organ daubers were always as free of radioactivity as if nuclear phys ics had never come to Tennessee. How could the wasps tell the difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entomology: Hot Wasp Nests | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

...football field. The students box Greek style, lope like Greek marathoners, toss a round stone "shot," skim a flat stone "discus," compete in wildly Hellenic wrestling free-for-alls. Winners go without Achilles' top prize, "fair-girdled women," but the exercise is splendid, and Sewanee's phys ed department is ecstatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Greeks at Old Sewanee | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

...Ouch! A required course for all physical-education majors (a category that includes a healthy sampling of Omaha U. athletes), Phys. Ed. 251 swings out under the critical eye of Dancing Master James E. ("Tom") Brock. A World War II marine and a veteran of the football wars as a three-year center at Notre Dame, 38-year-old Footballer Brock heads the university men's physical education department and doubles as a line coach. "At first these fellows think it's all for the birds," admits Brock, "but dancing pulls them down a peg. They learn that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shall We Dance? | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...Martin Balsam), for instance, is a phys. ed. instructor in a city high school, 30-some, decent and a little dumb. Three (Lee J. Cobb) is the boss of a messenger service, a dispositional bully who would rather punch somebody than stand up to his own problems. Four (E. G. Marshall) is a broker so coldblooded he never even sweats. Seven (Jack Warden) is a marmalade salesman who can really spread it on, and who is all for rushing the defendant to the chair so that he can hurry off to a seat of his own-at the evening ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Apr. 29, 1957 | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...readmitted the next fall even though he did not report for make-up summer school. Then he flunked out again, only to be readmitted in 1953. ¶ Another physical-education student who flunked out as a freshman in January 1953 but was promptly readmitted in February. His best subjects: Phys. Ed. 123 ("Coaching Basketball") and Phys. Ed. 125 ("Coaching Football"), ¶ A football co-captain who, in spite of cheating on a physiology exam, inched himself up-after five years-to the junior class. His "junior"-year curriculum: Sport Skills (a required freshman course which he had already taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Touchdown Machine | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

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