Word: pointer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass, (where the lecture-hall pointer is a fishing rod), a young Harvard biologist, Dr. John T. Bonner, is getting some of the answers. He works with a curious "slime mold," Dictyostelium discoideum, of the order Acrasiales, whose cells live alone and like it, but can also organize into a multicelled creature...
Biography blanks to be filled out by all members of the Classes of 1947 and 1948 for the combined Class Album are now at the pointer and will be in the mails next week, Ronald M. Foster, Jr. '47, Editorial Chairman of the joint Album Committee, announced last night...
...Teachers' Crisis (MARCH OF TIME) puts the pointer on one of the biggest U.S. problems-education. By narrative, charts and acted episodes, the film dramatizes the fact that, with public school enrollments bigger than ever before, and constantly growing, the U.S. has fewer public-school teachers than it had in 1939. Of these teachers many are pitifully ill-trained "emergency" amateurs. (The film shows the too common spectacle of a teacher unable to work a problem she has given students.) Still others are psychologically unfit to teach (the film shows a stupid teacher calling a pupil stupid...
Yale was still five points ahead at the 17-minute mark, when Bill Henry's two-pointer and a foul by George Hauptfuhrer sandwiched a Tony Lavelli free throw to bring the Varsity up to a three-point deficit...
...powerhouse dunked the Army 53 to 22 last Saturday in the pool of the Hudson River dwellers. Jim Van Fleet was the sole Pointer to hit the wall anywhere ahead of the pack, and at that he only tied Yale's Ed Weiss in the 220-yard breast stroke. The Crimson's Chuck Hoelzer, on comparative times, may edge even this heavy...