Word: barkings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Build me a home; I am hungry For the bark of a dog in a lane, For the sight of a light in a window at night And the song of a roof in the rain...
Because each Freshman was subjected to a barrage of questions, he naturally felt that obstacles were being put in his path, and that some malevolent hierarchy of officials wished to prevent him from majoring in the field of his first choice. The Committee's bark was worse than its bite, however, since everyone in good standing was admitted to his chosen field...
...very many of its people, for example its railway workers of whom it has plenty, but it does coddle its topflight scientists, with whom it is not overburdened. Sedulously coddled is the only living Russian Nobel Prizewinner in the sciences, grouchy, bearded old Dr. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, who can bark with impunity that he does not like a government of "illiterate Communists." Lately another example of Russian scientist-coddling has seemed to certain Britons like the embrace of a selfish bear. But the British can take their science more calmly than the Russians, as they proved last week...
...rich man in the U. S. is better equipped to bark up the tax tree than Publisher Hearst. Within 24 hours he had released a statement amplifying his tax grievances to the Associated Press, in which Mr. Hearst owns 19 memberships. "New York," he explained, "is my legal and voting residence, and has been for over 36 years. I simply cannot afford to be a resident of California as well as New York. . . . Perhaps I am honored by special attention in the taxation program of the Federal Government on account of my political attitude, but I do not think...
...year-old Ivan Petrovich Pavlov whose research on the salivary glands won him a Nobel Prize in Medicine (1904) even before his greater work on the conditioned reflex in dogs. Only Nobelist in the sciences Russia has had for three decades, old Dr. Pavlov does as he pleases, can bark with impunity: "I deplore the destruction of cultural values by illiterate Communists" A government of Communists gently pooh-poohs him, hands him an institute, a pension, endowments...