Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attend Harvard we shall eschew the Michigan locomotive and the skyrocket. Bue we shall keep our eyes open to see whether Barry Wood, with fourth down and goal to go, glances at his wrist watch and rushes off the field explaining: "Excuse me, please, I have a heavy bit of reading to do for economics and I'll have to run down to the library. The Grand Rapids Press...
...apology for disturbing his too few hours of quiet met the assurance that the still was pleased to talk to those who were so kind to drop in on him. "Of course," he went on, " this public life is a bit difficult at times. Only yesterday I went into Schrafft's for breakfast, and by the time I had finished my orange juice, a huge crowd had collected, and what is worse, the waitress dropped dishes and really made matters quite difficult in the excitement. As it is I must eat in the most obscure places just to have some...
That the facts of that evening are indeed mere details we assert emphatically, wherewith the CRIMSON says "perhaps." But that they "disclose a principle which is not in accord with the principles of the House Plan" appears to us to be as far-fetched, as tactless, as clumsy a bit of reasoning as one could find. To think that a group of 250 men can be so acutely sensible, not to the canons, but to the superficial quibbles which intrude into the field of taste is beyond us. We were not present and it may be that there...
...Women's College. So saying, the Vagabond will leave the shades of Sophia Smith with a parting admonition to the effect that the entertainment consists mostly of absorbing the cleverest, catchiest, and downright distinctive set of rules governing any herd of femmes congregated anywhere. To make the game a bit more interesting this writer will give a slight hint just to get the ball rolling, so to speak: Don't kick any bottles over. Penalty double in this case...
Between the crystal (highest form of inorganic matter) and a unicellular bit of protoplasm (lowest form of living matter) has been a gap which scientists have never been able to span. In a recent issue of Nature, British scientific weekly, Dr. F. Rinne, University of Freiburg, Germany, suggested similarities between a crystal and a simple sperm cell which may be the means of drawing living and nonliving matter together. He pointed out that a chief characteristic of liquid crystals* is the so-called "straight-stretch" type of molecule which composes it. Protein molecules of sperm cells are also...