Word: denning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mustachioed German physicist, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, published an enormous volume on the physics and psychology of musical sound. Its enormous title: Lehre von den Tonempfindungen als Physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik. Terser English translators called it Sensations of Tone. Composers and prima donnas paid little attention to Physicist von Helmholtz' monumental brainwork, but the science of acoustics was groggy from it for half a century...
...Note: Afraid that too many Seniors will flood Reverend Wilde with applications for his outdoor job, the Crimson suggests he try Radcliffe, lately rumored to be a den for considerable sherry tippling...
...chase foxes down their holes and bring them out. Nowadays not one fox terrier in a hundred does his job. But fortnight ago at Farley, Iowa, Farmer Emmet Simon, hunting with his two terriers-Tuffy and her 5-year-old daughter Spotty-sent them into a fox's den. Tuffy came out, but not Spotty. She had been trapped by a rolling stone...
...exchange for Southwell, Jacob P. Den Hartog, associate professor of Applied Mechanics will lecture at Oxford during that half-year. At the same time leave of absence has been given to Hans Zinsser, Charles Wilder Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology, from March 1 to June 1, 1938 to go to the Peiping Medical College, while Mason Hammond, assistant professor of History and of Greek and Latin will study at the American Academy in Rome...
Wellesley stole a march on the Lampooners when they got a free dinner in the Mount Auburn Street den; then they got their own dictionary introduced as the arbiter of the advertising-contract sponsored "clash...