Word: adding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...David ("Willie"') O'Brien became a bishop, auxiliary of Chicago and titular of Calinda. Later, taking crozier (crook), Episcopal ring, Book of Gospels, mitre and gloves he walked with his consecrators through the Cathedral, blessing his flock, returning to the altar to utter thrice a well-wishing Ad multos annos. In all the great crowd none beamed with greater pride upon the consecration of Bishop O'Brien than his 73-year-old foster mother who had been rolled in for the ceremony in a wheel chair...
This is a reductio ad absurdum not only for common sense but for the theory of Relativity. Timidly at first but more boldly of late, some astronomers have suggested other possible causes for the redshift, viz. cosmic dust scattered through space or a slowing of light's velocity after millions of years of travel. Once as fervid a believer in the expanding universe as Sir Arthur Eddington, Dr. Hubble was ready last week to admit that it might be an illusion. "The cautious observer," said he wryly, "refrains from committing himself to the present interpretation and employs the colorless...
...basically fat and caustic soda.† The trade paper Soap estimates that U. S. soap makers last year used 1,500,000,000 lb. of fats, of which two-thirds came from beyond the seas. At present prices the 3? tax amounts on the average to a 100% ad valorem levy. All soap makers use some imported fats, and they bluntly declare that the new impost will add 25% to the price of a cake of soap...
...amusing. The fact that Professor Sorokin appears to be a real scholar also adds interest. To the student who has no liking for philosophy, or for ideas connoted by such phrases as "intergroup antagonisms, tensions, conflicts," "artistic mentality of a people," "social stratification," unconscious social control," and so forth ad infinitum, the course, and especially the lectures, will be a frightful bore...
...business candidates is in the advertising division. Not only is this work of marketing a saleable product a practical training of great value for those who are looking forward to business as a career, but it is an experience in human relations unexcelled by any other college activity. The ad- vortising columns of the CRIMSON are patronized by sellers of widely different kinds of products and services. The business candidate visits banking offices, clothing merchants, night clubs, barber shops, theatres, dancing schools, department stores, sporting goods stores, pawn shops, and many others to whom the CRIMSON may be of assistance...