Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rising sand-clouds from the West blew relentlessly across the stone-edge plain. Formations of loess dropped in dismaying array on huddled figures before shivering animals. Superstitious yellow-men wrapped themselves deeper into fur-lined garments and earth-colored birds took safety in fight toward the East. Sky and land fused together in one great maelstrom of motion. Here was storm over Asia...
...some thousand Harvard Freshmen has been granted by the Harvard CRIMSON in its first "Confidential Guide to Freshman Courses" in pamphlet form just mailed to each and every one of them. Here is no wordy exhalation from the pillared halls, but something in their own language about that formidable array of courses from which they must choose four or five by next Monday...
...some thousand Harvard Freshmen has been granted by the Harvard CRIMSON in its first "Confidential Guide to Freshman Courses" in pamphlet form just mailed to each and every one of them. Here is no wordy exhalation from the pillared halls, but something in their own language about that formidable array of courses from which they must choose four or five by next Monday...
...prosperity and depression repeat with mathematical regularity. Against this contention argued Mathematician Edwin Bidwell Wilson of Harvard. "An economist can find periods in anything if he uses the right system. But those periods would be but figments of the imagination." To prove his point Professor Wilson showed that an array of business statistics which displayed periodicity also obeyed the laws of chance. Then he jumbled the statistics and demonstrated that an apparent regularity existed in the jumble...
Even such a catchall as Sociology must bow before the imposing array of weekly subjects in Anthropology 1. The only qualification is that it treat the early beginnings of man. The first half-year is devoted to the study of Physical Anthropology and takes the place of a course in Evolution usually given in other colleges. The second half-year takes up the cultural aspects of man's beginnings...