Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...young boy I overheard the other day was explaining to his mother about a blackboard set he had his heart set on. The sales lady treated his arguments with a certain scorn and pointed out that blackboards, after all, were made for little children; was he sure that a nice photo-electric cell, or potentiometer wouldn't be better...
...very few reports of Conant's can have made this distinction. (The U.M.T. bill would set up a special corps under part civilian control for training youths...
...green grass nearby--just over a fence not too difficult to peer across, right over the tilted nose of a Harvard undergraduate. Here at the Graduate Center, in Harkness Commons, can be found a night club atmosphere with a dance floor surrounded by tables replete with beer and set-ups. Just below this upper level academic stork club can be found a more intimate and elegant dance for an extracurricular group with a social bent. Next door, amid the topography of Women Hall's Wheeler Room, a smoky and more Bacchanalian dance for a like minded organization fills the sunken...
...shoulder, weekly and successively, the responsibility of duplicating the atmosphere of the second floor of the Harkness Commons on Friday and/or Saturday nights. The Big Ten may have their "Union Buildings" but Harvard does have its Houses. Why not use them? Administrative details such as beer licenses, provision of set-ups, the meshing of formal dance schedules of the Houses to the restating bistros, admission charges, if any, and fair division of the work, we leave to the ingenuity and facile diplomacy of the undergraduates...
Early this week, the Department of Nutrition took the first step in solving the problem of what causes the nation's number one Iatal disease, hardening of the arteries. It set up and began operating a new $20,000 ultracentroscope, a machine which is capable of spinning blood, in specially made cells, at the rate of 52,640 revolutions per minute...