Word: wanders
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Betterment projects-roads, schools, housing developments, steel mills-are begun and never completed. At Zenica, slated to be the Pittsburgh of Yugoslavia, you see it spelled out. Peasants undertaking to become skilled workers wander back to the land. Youth brigades are digging foundations for a rolling mill-a job best done by trained laborers with bulldozers and steamshovels. But bulldozers and cement mixers stand idle because no one apparently has been able to train the men to use them. The labor force is unstable because it is at the mercy of any bureaucrat's interpretation of the Plan. "Just...
Maybe this year's freshmen need inspiration; perhaps the new generation of yard dwellers is more conservative, or are just not impressed by a big show. At any rate, should an old grad wander into the Union this week he might wonder whether a Smoker campaign was going on, or the men of '54 were merely advertising for a baby parade...
...first the professors themselves would wander the graveyard paths by stealth and by night to find specimens good enough to last out a term or a course. Later one professor wrote that the students themselves were becoming very helpful in digging up good subjects. But grave-robbing was obviously a crime, and mutilation of bodies was believed by many to be sacreligious. Harvard had to fight to keep her medical men out of trouble...
This fall, Ivy League newspapers have begun to grumble about the fraternity system. Autumn is the rushing season for most fraternities; sophomores wander from house to house, shake hands with prospective brothers, examine the paddles on the wall, and then sit back and wait. At a school like Dartmouth, less than half can reasonably expect to pick lip a pin; at other schools, the proportion may be lower, Ivy newspapers have suddenly started trying to keep the proportion down...
...oceanful of good omen. Soft breezes, another boatswain bird and a sea of floating weed with a live crab still enmeshed in it pleased everyone, and "the best sailors went ahead to sight land first." Actually, the lonely little formation had not yet reached mid-Atlantic: boatswain birds wander hundreds of miles from land and the seaweed was the Sargasso...