Word: protectiveness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next try, the one who rolled first now rolls second. If, improbably, the eggs do touch, then the owners go into Phase 2 of the competition. This is identical to egg picking, another old Easter custom. In egg picking (or butting) one competitor holds his egg point up, protecting all but the tip with his fingers. His rival taps downward with the point of the other egg. WThen one cracks, the contest is resumed with the large end of the egg. The one whose egg is cracked on both point and butt surrenders his egg. If the point...
...five lawyers, acting on their own initiative, wanted "to protect the Constitution" by preventing this publication, according to Jacob J. Kaplan '08, LLB. '10, one of the group...
...Association, a group "organized to protect and support the Arnold Arboretum in the public interest," has charged that the removal of books and specimens was a violation of the agreement by which the Arboretum was created in 1872 as a public trust administered by the University...
Intellectual Exercise. Today's sport, says Irving De Koff, coach of Columbia University's defending co-champions (along with N.Y.U.), is much more of an intellectual exercise. "While trying to protect yourself, you are testing, trying your opponent. You are investigating his patterns, his attitudes, his favorite actions. You have a limited time in which to decipher him. It's like a chess game in rapid motion...
...repercussions of Schmitz' action have shown how the scholar can act to protect himself against such measures. On February 26, Victor Weisskopf, professor at MIT, became the first to boycott Washington for its ban on Oppenheimer. Two weeks later, Harvard professor Perry Miller, in turning down a similar invitation to speak at the University in Seattle, declared, "No self-respecting scholar could talk there now." Last week seven scholars, two of them members of Harvard's medical faculty, joined in refusing to appear at a symposium planned by Washington University's biology department, declaring that the ban on Oppenheimer...