Word: beachful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think you are going to hear from quite a few Wesleyan graduates on that subject, because Wilbur Olin ("Bobby") Atwater, Beach Professor of Chemistry at Wesleyan University, was using human subjects in his respiration calorimeter, in the basement of Judd Hall, several years before 1911. I know, because I was one of them. At midyear examination time of my junior year (i.e., February 1905), a number of us took our examinations in Bobby's box, with the idea of finding out whether brain work consumed any physical energy. As I recall it, they never proved that...
Pioneers. In Long Beach, Calif., Johnny Kunakoff was persuaded to beach his seagoing jeep and surrender to two motorcycle cops, who made possibly the first arrest for drunken amphibious driving...
...Riga Beach...
With regard to the scruples of a certain lady about the nude bathing on the Riga Beach [TIME, May 12] . . . may I inform you that the Riga Beach lies behind a natural wall, about 20-30 feet high, formed by sand dunes covered with Scotch pine-Pinus sylvestris...
...Woman on the Beach (RKO Radio) is sullen-faced Joan Bennett, one of Hollywood's most efficient players of loose women, in an unusual and artful thriller. Along the sand comes a Coast Guardsman (Robert Ryan), still shaky enough from an experience with a torpedo to be excused some of his sins in this film. His sins are extensive and, for a movie hero, pretty human. He is engaged to a nice girl (Nan Leslie), but when she proves too nice and cautious to marry him in haste, he takes up with Joan, begins making love...