Word: broads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dick Harlow, curator of birds' nests and eggs in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, broke into a broad grin when questioned yesterday about the recent discovery in Memorial Hall of some mysterious eggs which have so far baffled diagnosis...
...were up in arms against Columbia's acceptance. In the Cornell Sim Historian Hendrik Willem Van Loon, "a 101% Aryan," looked into his Alma Mater's past, doubted "that Hitler's bright boys would care to associate with representatives of a university founded by that eminently broad-minded Quaker, Ezra Cornell...
Thus the body of science is like a pyramid. The broad base rests on sense impressions. As one proceeds farther & farther from sense impressions, fewer & fewer systems are necessary to explain Nature, since each system explains more. Thus mechanics and heat are merged when heat is revealed as molecular motion. But this is far from the pyramid's base; a hand dipped in hot water feels heat, not motion. The apex of the pyramid, not yet reached, would be a single system containing the terms necessary to describe all phenomena...
...Riley's conception of humor is broad and earthy; he's not above generous exploitation of popular susceptibility to the obvious double entendre. He realizes that, like money, sex may not be everything, but it's hard to got along without. His take is simple and though unevenly paced it has its moments. A quiet, solid little tourists home is thrown into an uproar of delicious confusion when the unexpected guest sweeps in the alluring form of Carole Arden, the luscious temptress of the silver screen. Miss Arden seems to be on a tour of personal appearances which has been...
Aside from providing small investors with an opportunity to obtain broad investment diversification, an investment trust's only justification is a record better than the market averages. U. S. management trusts as a whole have provided employment for hordes of bright young college graduates, a good living for their managers and plenty of commissions for their banking sponsors. Otherwise they have failed to justify their existence...