Word: curiousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus thundered doughty Professor Stark in the columns of Nature, probably the best-known scientific journal in the world. An international clearinghouse for major research, Nature has frequently found occasion to excoriate abuses of the scientific spirit in Nazi Germany. At first glance it seemed curious that the editors of Nature bothered to print Professor Stark's expostulation...
...cause I'll analyze him," boasted Two-Ton Tony, whose paralyzing punches have been known to knock opponents clear out of the ring, and sometimes hit a referee by mistake. Because he had been hailed as the most colorful fisticuffer since John L. Sullivan, 10,000 curious fight fans turned out to watch his well-publicized antics. But they made him a 4-to-1 underdog, in spite of the fact that he had never been knocked down in his eight-year career, had knocked out his four most recent opponents (Al Ettore, Leroy Haynes, Lorenzo Pack and Charley...
...copies. After thoughtfully picking them to little bits, Professor Whipple concluded that their enormous popularity did not constitute a serious reflection on U. S. taste. Zane Grey's tireless riders of the purple sage, lone star rangers and wanderers of the wasteland, he decided, were interesting for a curious reason: They were like the heroes of some folk tale that had never quite got written. Nobody would compare the stories of Zane Grey to Beowulf, but before Beowulf there were probably generations of crude popular storytellers, handing on the same legends, gradually refining them, until eventually a poet appeared...
Good scientists are insatiably curious. Sociologist Ray H. Abrams of the University of Pennsylvania, wondering how long a widower waits after the death of a first wife before getting married again, decided to explore the pages of Who's Who in America. Thousands of eminent widowers never remarry. But Dr. Abrams found 1,333 entries in Who's Who giving the date of a first wife's death and that of a second marriage. Among these remarrying widowers he found that the average interval was not very long-about two and a half years...
...Miss Davis is again called upon to play a complex, not wholly agreeable, personality, and again she responds with a sensitive, understanding portrayal. Although the supporting cast, particularly George Brent, are especially fine, Miss Davis captures attention throughout; leaving, one can think only of Jezebel and the curious psychological trait that made her do evil almost against her will, and injure those she loved...