Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year 1936. And since the recent exams are always the most significant, the college is deprived of the most useful part of the collection. At the same time, such booklets as there are, usually are taken to some undiscovered portion of the reading room, or else they are torn apart because someone is too lazy to copy the exams, and therefore simply rips them from the binding instead...
...only 38.5% of the Chamber seats, the Premier claimed they had won just over 40% of the popular vote, and that that sufficed. Next the Government suddenly announced that as yet there were no official returns. Everyone already knew, however, that the main feature of the poll, apart from Tatarescu's failure to win 40%, had been tremendous gains by the so-called Rumanian Nazis...
...Europe may be looked upon as a nucleus composed of individual protons, not, however, all of the same size or power, mixed up with a few neutrons of no charge and little mass. This is kept together by a strong force which prevents them flying apart, known as geography. This nucleus is not symmetrical as, included on its western edge, is a particularly powerful proton (Britain) that has 'wave characteristics' of a definite type peculiar to itself. In the south there is what might be called a neutrino (Italy). This has, some think, also wave mechanic aspirations...
Violin makers, even chemists and acoustical engineers, have taken Stradivari's instruments apart to see what makes them so good. One theory is that the unusually lustrous and transparent varnish Stradivari used had something to do with the Strad tone. But Antonio Stradivari's secret, like his grave, is still undiscovered. Where those bones are today, and what makes a Strad a Strad, nobody knows...
FROM THESE ROOTS-Mary M. Colum -Scribner ($2.50). Twelve essays, discussing writers as far apart as Flaubert and Thomas Wolfe, linked together by an analysis of "the ideas that have made modern literature"; the work of a seasoned, conservative critic whose writing is always lucid and shrewd, sometimes (as in her comments on "the despair of the modern world") eloquent, powerful, exact...