Word: size
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...features of the new building is that the size and arrangement of individual laboratories can be altered to accomodate different - sized research groups and projects by moving the light-metal room partitions...
...seems doubly risky to introduce radical changes which could virtually wreck the school if they failed. The committee discussed the possibility of setting up a pilot group within the school to test the plan, but concluded that no really significant results could be obtained in a group of practical size...
...addition, since Exeter derives more than a third of its income from a large endowment (higher per student than Harvard University's), experimentation with the curriculum offers minimum financial benefits. If Exeter increased its size and went onto a four-quarter schedule, it would actually lose money (per student), despite the increased economic efficiency. Although the loss would be a matter of less than $40,000, and could easily be covered by a nominal increase in tuition, the fact remains that, for Exeter, or any school or college with a substantial endowment, the financial gain of the revised curriculum...
Against the small Crimson forwards, Williams' size advantage could be important. But the starting line that coach Bruce Munro has called "perhaps the fastest in college soccer" should be able to handle the Ephs. Tadgh Sweeney, who turned in the finest performance of his short career Saturday against Cornell, will start at wing, along with John McIntosh. John Mudd, Saturday's scoring hero, and John Hedreen will open at inside, with carry Ekpebu and Keith Lowe alternating at center. Bruce Johnstone, though not a starter, has become a key man in the Crimson attack, and will see considerable service today...
...Proverbs. The first represents a giant housewife on what appears to be a militant invasion of hell. It has been widely reproduced. The second-Flemish Proverbs-may well be Brueghel's earliest extant painting, consists of twelve separate wooden "platters" framed as a unit. (One is reproduced life-size opposite, nine of the rest overleaf.) Pieter Brueghel the Younger framed the platters, but only the elder Brueghel could have done the actual painting. Only his hand was firm enough to form such airy medallions of understanding...