Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every bit of protoplasm is loaded with multitudes of "hot points" or "radiogens" which produce the rays, according to him. Temperature of those points must be between 3,000° and 6,000° C. "If one could look into protoplasm with an eye capable of infinite magnification," he elaborated, "one might expect to see the radiogens spaced like stars, as suns in infinite miniature." The "interstellar" spaces absorb the intense heat of his radiogens, he reasons. The nucleus of his theoretic radiogen "would theoretically be a molecule of iron." Dr. Maria Takles, a Crile associate, figures four billion radiogens...
...young man who was responsible for a Brown University magazine having a story that Holy Cross football players bit Brown men has resigned as editor-in-chief...
...giving quite a bit of space to you, young feller, because we consider you and your generation extremely important. We don't want you to lose your spirit. And we want you to know that we think you are great for apologizing like the man that you are. And, after all, we guess we'll tell your name--Don De Nyse. --Boston Traveller...
Eliot sent his affirmative decision to the Corporation straightway. He was formally accepted and made president subject to the concurrence of the Overseers. As before mentioned, a concurrent vote of the Overseers was necessary to the validation of the Corporation's choice, and it is a familiar bit of Harvard history that for a while the Overseers declined to concur. The many questions concerning the future are said to have excited opposition in many quarters. The conservatives feared that his election would mean the decline of their influence. The Overseers referred the nomination to a committee on March...
...about slapping faces, seizing cigars and pipes, and crying that every-one at Harvard was a hellion. The students enjoyed every bit of it, and proceeded to swarm about her and sweep her to Sanders Theatre. The boys smashed their way through the door and triumphantly carried Mrs. Nation onto the stage. The crusader again attempted to speak, but the 2000 men who jammed the hall vociferously drowned her out. Someone presented her with a bunch of crysanthemums, which she accepted with profuse bows and acknowledgements...