Word: curiousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...normal adults-the pituitary gland. Galen, the famed physician of antiquity, and Vesalius, the great anatomist of the Renaissance, knew it. They thought it gave saliva. In 1783 an Irishman named Charles O'Brien died at the age of 22. He was 8 ft. 4 in. tall. A curious physician bought his body for $2,500, dissected the head, found a pituitary gland almost as big as a hen's egg. Modern endocrinologists regard it as the "master gland" of the body...
...When a curious Commissioner asked Mr. Myers how the compromise valuation figure was arrived at, Mr. Myers replied: ". . . by general discussion. . . . These are the tricks of the trade, and I get paid for them. I'm not going to educate...
...East this converging flood of population is still four months away, but San Francisco has only six weeks before the great visitation begins.* Last week curious and critical San Franciscans took a last look around their Exposition's "Treasure Island," probably about to be closed to visitors while 3,000 workmen go on double shift to polish it off for opening...
...personal side, Greville's diary is interesting chiefly for the light it throws on his curious motive for writing it. Despite His aristocratic connections,his wealth, his membership in the Privy Council, his welcome to the most exclusive social, political and intellectual circles, Greville believed himself shallow-minded, frivolous, dissipated. His sober diary was a means to improve his mind, a penance for his sins...
That CBS was out to rival RCA in every way, young Mr. Paley neither denied nor affirmed. Merely pointing out that record sales are currently booming, he preferred to relate a curious little chapter of corporate counterpoint: one of American Record Corp.'s subsidiaries is famed old Columbia Phonograph Co. which dipped CBS into the baptismal fount eleven years ago, sold the little starveling three months later...