Word: affairing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Free School Lane. The Cavendish Laboratory came to birth in 1870 when the Seventh Duke of Devonshire (whose family name was Cavendish) gave Cambridge $31,500 to start a physics department. First building was a three-story, L-shaped affair which is still standing, though its once-white stone is now black with age. First director was James Clerk Maxwell, a Scotsman who as a schoolboy wore lace frill collars, a tunic and square-toed shoes, was considered peculiar by his mates. They were quite right. When he was hardly past 30, Maxwell invented electro-magnetic waves (e.g., wireless waves...
...Samuel Pepys know the intimate scenes that pop out so unexpectedly among the humdrum entries on office work and financial difficulties- such passages as Pepys's account of his shamefaced spying on his wife Elizabeth when he thought she was too friendly with her dancing teacher, his love affair with Mrs. Bagwell after he had got her husband a job, with pert Betty after he had married her off to simple Mr. Martin, his adventures with Doll Lane, Jane Welsh, Elizabeth Whittle, Frances Tooker, and various maids who were briefly employed in the Pepys household. But not so many...
...pelicans and cormorants, a spirited defense of vultures and well-chosen excerpts from the works of other naturalists. One of these, Dr. L. H. Matthews' description of the mating habits of the albatross, reads like something by James Thurber. Albatross mating, it appears, is "no rough-and-tumble affair as with the house spar-row"; the males "gather around one female and bow to her, bringing the head down close to the ground. As they do this they utter a harsh groaning sound, and the female bows and groans back at them." The mysteries and wonders which Naturalist Beebe...
...most warlike event of the whole affair, they said, was discovering the bloated body of a "Mrs. Jones" in a flooded garage. They all agreed that they had "the best cook in the brigade." It turned out he was the chef at the "Chez Paris" restaurant in Brookline...
Following the season opener October 7 in the University Handicap meet, the team will enter a meet with Boston University, a triangular affair with New Hampshire and Dartmouth, followed by the Holly Cross run, and the annual Big Three meet with the Elis and the Tigers. The season concludes with the 1C4A games at New York, November...