Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of the more than 400 saints: Simeon Stylites, who lived 38 years on a pillar, at first 9 ft., at last 60 ft. high. Sebastian, who was shot full of arrows but (according to Author Wescott's account) recovered and was beaten to death. Gothard, absent-minded Alpine hermit, hung his coat on a sunbeam; the obliging beam waited till the coat was removed, then hurried after the setting sun. When Agnes of Monte Pulciano prayed, roses and lilies fell from heaven, "because she never did it mechanically." Philip Neri, disciple of Savonarola, said: "Despise the world; despise...
...life in plants. Last year Columbia University gave Dr. Conant its Chandler Medal, the American Chemical Society (New York section) its William H. Nichols Medal. Dr. Conant is rated a stern taskmaster -and admired for it-by his ablest students. Chemistry is his whole life. Yet he is no absent-minded professor: decade ago he leaped into the Charles River to save a would-be suicide. His wife, mother of his two children, is Grace Thayer Richards, daughter of the late Chemist Theodore W. Richards who won a Nobel Prize in 1916. The Conants live hard by the Harvard Chemical...
Washington gossips last week had Secretary of the Treasury Woodin out of the Cabinet. He had, they whispered, broken with President Roosevelt over the latter's currency inflation program pending in Congress. Was he not a "hard money'' man from New York? Had he not been absent from his office for days? How could he do less than resign...
...whole question up to Allied's directors. Later Mr. Altschul was told that Allied's direc- tors had discussed the question and referred it to a special committee. Months passed and nothing was heard from the special committee-one of its members was "unavoidably" absent from town- but the Stock List Committee hoped against hope until last March, when Allied Chemical issued its 1932 statement in the same form as before. Then Mr. Altschul, up in arms, wrote pressingly to Mr. Weber urging that if Allied's "marketable securities" were not worth at least...
...range of the old-time phonograph was neither wide nor even. With in its narrow effective band, it was stridently partial to certain tones, while notes below middle C were inaudible except for their high overtones, the ear being surprisingly obliging in imagining the absent fundamentals. The newer phonographs and present-day talking pictures have a broad and even response spread, yet there are still inaudible bands at the bass and treble extremes. Wide-Range recording has considerably reduced these inaudible bands. Naturally, improvement is noticeable only in the sounds that lie within these newly retrieved areas of the spectrum...