Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Phillips' theories that pictures should be seen in incidental surroundings, not in the vaultlike rooms of great museums. His collection is open to all visitors, but Mr. Phillips does not want it to be a rubberneckers' haunt. Unlike most collectors, he gives no extemporaneous lectures to casual visitors but will talk privately to the interested...
...conscious that anything he might say about Professor Copeland and the annual Christmas Reading would be entirely superfluous. Those who read this column will find some way to crowd into the Union Dining Room tonight not later than half past eight. For it goes without saying, even the most casual of the Vagabond's comaraderie will have discovered for himself that Copey is on the calendar today...
Rubber is a complex hydrocarbon. Fundamental in its composition is isoprene. The organic chemist can make isoprene from such common stuffs as turpentine, petroleum, starch, coal tar or acetylene. News of goldenrod as a likely rubber source gave the casual daily press opportunity to picture farmers sneezing as they harvested the autumn-gorgeous weed. But goldenrod pollen is one of the lesser causes of hayfever. Ragweed, more widespread, is the chief cause...
...casual reader, or to one with only a superficial knowledge of the subject; Professor Baxter's carefully modulated article dealing with U. S. relations with the U. S. S. R. in Monday's CRIMSON would appear an unprejudiced scholarly treatment of a controversial subject, for the writer draws no conclusions--but closes with the pious wish that the U. S. will act with wisdom...
Everything so far seems satisfactory. The workers present an excellent cross-section of democracy. They give every evidence of enjoying the customary routine of industrious labor. Their conduct is satisfactory and has given no offence to the Vagabond. Casual inquiry into their lunch pails reveals little violation of the law, while their literature so far as the Vagabond's knowledge of reading French and Latin goes, is at present no threat to undergraduate morals...