Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last to attempt any such dictation. Their service must by limited to the spreading of he more conservative idioms in the hopes of creating a clearer and wider comprehension of them and to considering the more radical with an idea of submitting the more important to the acid test of popular use. In such a way it may be possible to influence the advance of language; to direct it is impossible. But if this group finds itself capable of promoting the unity of English speaking nations and extending the general acquaintance with their modes of thought, then more power...
...shift in the line-up, tried for the first time against the yearlings last week, and as a result the five will start tonight as in the original contests of the year, with McLeish and Gordon at forward, Fitts at center, and Black and Rudofsky at guard. Given the acid test by the struggle with Worcester Tech Saturday night, when the new combination which sent Gordon to a guard berth and put in Pallo at forward, was tried out for the first half while the present line-up was used in the second, it was found that the increased scoring...
...Kemble '14 will address the Physical Colloquium this afternoon at 5 o'clock in room 3 of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. His subject will be "The Band Spectrum of Hydrochloric Acid and its Heat of Formation". All graduate and undergraduate students doing work in physics are invited...
...Some acid critics accuse the movie writers of lacking imagination. These censorious writers assert that hackneyed types and situations are constantly reused, and that when some one starts an idea like the adventures of a vamp or the mischances of a comedian in a pie shop, for years we have nothing else. This view overlooks the truly startling originality of the profession when it deals with classic literary materials. Then its imagination shows boundless liberty or at least takes boundless liberties. New York Evening Post
...Hearst third party should put the power of the owner of the great syndicate to an acid test. The returns will tell the story of a democracy in which one man can lead millions through the great power of his wealth, or they will tell an altogether different story. They will reveal that people will buy red ink with enthusiasm, devour the Sunday scandal supplement with gusto, and chuckle gleefully over the comic section but, having nibbled the lurid bait they will shy from the hook...