Word: beta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editorial policy of these papers seems to be bound in rigid provincialism, with an elaboration of current facts and details that merely report events, failing to challenge constructive thought. Editorial discussions refer to the ranking of clubs, liberalizing the curriculum and the normalcy of Phi Beta Kappa students, now and then pausing to this or that professor or this or that athletic team heartily between the shoulder blades...
...introduced by Congressman Henry Bascom Steagall of Alabama, chairman of the House Banking & Currency Committee. In the Senate an identical measure was sponsored by Virginia's old, peppery Phi-Beta-Kappa-Dangling Carter Glass. Senator Glass never lets the world forget that he acted as "patron and floor manager" (his own words for the original Federal Reserve Act when it passed the House 19 years ago), that he still considers it very much his own legislative child. The Glass-Steagall bill was born at the White House. Behind it loomed the shadowy outline of a printing press whirling off millions...
...Cambridge, has been awarded one of the Charles and Julia Henry Scholarships for the academic year 1932-33 it was announced last night by the American trustees of the fund. Birkhoff, who prepapred at Browne and Nichols and Northwood School at Lake Placid, was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Junior Eight last year and plays on the Lowell House "B" squash team. He and Marshall Hall of Yale will study mathematics at Cambridge...
...Author? Phi Beta Kappa coal-miner, society reporter (New York Herald), Genealogist James Branch Cabell has written some 18 volumes about the inhabitants of Poictesme. fairyland of his heart's desire, drawn in such mind's-eye detail that he has made maps of it. Born in Richmond, Va., in 1879 ne still does most of his writing there. The biographer of Manuel does not concern himself with ordinary life or contemporary affairs, feels that "Art is a criticism of life only in the sense that prison breaking is a criticism of the penitentiary." Mildly claustropho-biac. his desk faces...
...place. At the Central London Hatchery & Conditioning Centre fertilized human eggs were bokanovskified to produce thousands of identical twins. These embryos were cultured in bottles, immunized and conditioned, decanted after nine months as lusty infants to be further conditioned by hypnopaedia (sleep teaching) into useful, satisfied citizens of Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta or Epsilon class. The Betas, Gammas, Deltas and Epsilons did all the work; the Alphas had all the fun. They travelled in helicopters, went to the "feelies," danced to the music of sexophones. In the Year of Our Ford 632 every woman wore a Malthusian belt, blushed with...