Word: blandings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London worried Ambassador Davis went around to ask bland, poker-faced Japanese Ambassador Tsune Matsudaira just what Japan now wants. She is known to want naval parity with Britain and the U. S. but her want thus far has been made known by Tokyo statesmen in statements provokingly unofficial. To provoke Mr. Davis is impossible. He smiled understanding as Ambassador Matsudaira professed total, official ignorance...
...Braggiotti '35, Robert S. Brookings, 2nd '35, and John Dorman '36 were elected by members of Winthrop House on Wednesday and Thursday to fill the three vacancies on the House committee, it was announced last night by John M. Lockwood '34, chairman. The other nominees were: Juniors: Frank P. Bland, Irving S. Chenoweth, Stanley G. Kellogg, and James A. Wolff; Sophomores, Thomas A. Bittenbender, William W. Gallagher, Jr., Benjamin H. Hallowell, August C. Helmholtz, 2nd, and John R. Pappenheimer...
John M. Lockwood '34, chairman of the present Winthrop House Committee, announced last night the nominations for the three annual vacancies on its staff. Two will be elected from the following list of Juniors: Frank P. Bland '35, Dorilio C. Braggietti '35, Irving S. Chenoweth '35, Stanley G. Kellegg '35, James A. Wolff '35. One from the Sophomores: Thomas A. Bittenbender '36, John Derman '36, William W. Gallagher, Jr. '36, Benjamin H. Hallowell '36, August C. Helmholtz, 2nd., '36, and John R. Pappenhelmer. The elections will be carried out by printed ballot today and Wednesday...
...learning of penology" (Hurley report, P. 2) but Wilkins claims that his practical information is faulty. It consists in the participation in several criminal cases in the few years which he spent at the bar and in his acquaintance with several graduates of the state prison at Charlestown. With bland assurance. Wilkins asserts. "Obviously the conclusions of such a person are entitled to no weight in a field where experience and expert knowledge are prerequisites...
...entitled "Chemical Separation of Diplogen from Hydrogen." Showing throughout no sign of recognizing any other nomenclature, it presaged a general British plump for the Rutherford suggestions. Meanwhile Professor Urey and the two men who helped him discover heavy hydrogen had dispatched to Nature a letter with barbs under the bland velvet of its phrasing. The three discoverers stated that they had long ago considered and discarded the name diplogen. Reason: "The compound NH1H2/2 would be called di-diplogen mono-hydrogen nitride. . . . Unfortunate is the repetition of the syllable 'di.' . . . "The [British] objection to ... deuterium and deuton seems...