Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warmed by Newfoundlanders' seals. Four-fifths of the world's fur seals belong in the U. S. Government-controlled herds which migrate yearly up the Pacific Coast to Pribilof Islands, chaperoned by Coast Guards and harried only by the harpoons of Indians and Eskimos. On Pribilof only "bachelor seals" (males under seven years old) are killed. North Atlantic seals are fatter than those on Pribilof, are covered with coarse brown hair instead of fur, and lead a harder life. Each winter they swim 1,000 mi. into the Arctic, where they become food, fuel and clothing for Eskimos...
...Langmuir Prize of $1,000, established by a brother of Nobel Laureate Irving Langmuir, is actually awarded to a promising chemist under 30. The Society announced last week that this year's plum will go to Dr. Charles Frederick Koelsch, 27, University of Minnesota researcher, teacher and bachelor, for the "quality and quantity" of his unspectacular work with organic compounds...
...understand God. Now I have made friends with Him. To love Him truly you must love change, and you must love a joke, these being the true inclinations of His own heart." One of Dinesen's sophisticated elders quotes "that old saying which the peasants call the bachelor's prayer: 'I pray thee, good Lord, that I may not be married. But if I am to be married, that I may not be a cuckold. But if I am to be a cuckold, that I may not know. But if I am to know, that...
...started out from the first on a broad university program. Many of the features of the ordinary American college of the residential type have been a part of its history. At the present time it grants about the same number of advanced and professional degrees as it does the Bachelor of Arts degree in any given year...
...personally responsible for the Laborite victory, though he will run the County Council, which governs all London except the tiny "City," Laborite Morrison did not become chairman of the Council last week. That duty he delegated to Henry, Baron Sneil of Plumstead, a sober-sided Laborite Peer, bachelor son of a farm laborer. While Lord Snell was putting on the chain of office, Laborite Morrison was doing even better. Slum clearance and new housing projects were prime planks in his election platform. The same day the new council took office he appointed one Lewis Silkin to chairman the Housing Committee...