Word: doned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inquired so hotly as to who struck him that a national saying therefrom crept into existence . . . he left $1,000 to whoever should name the man." Just 100 years later Mrs. Jenny G. Covely of Athol, N. Y. applied for the legacy, said her father (one Tillerton) had done the deed...
...glad to assist in the formulation of a reasonable program." Said Chairman Adams of the Senate sub-committee which cut $150,000,000 from WPA's deficiency appropriation, only to have the President demand it again: "If there was some cooperation by the Administration, we might get something done...
...regards the chapters of the work dealing with Einstein's scientific achievements, these are carefully isolated from the whole. This the another has done in order that the unmathematically inclined reader may skip these without destroying the unity of the context. And this move has been well chosen, for despite the author's avowed aim to present a simple explanation of less technical aspects of relativity, the lay reader becomes quickly befuddled in a bewildering maze of abstract mathematical formulae. But if one discounts these two chapters, the work presents a warm and appealing picture of this modest, publicity dodging...
...years--since, for example, the early 1900's--there has been a surprising tendency for the popularity of a certain class of subjects to remain stable, while that of others fluctuated violently. Within the latter group, it has often occurred that two fields have not only fluctuated, but have done so exactly in inverse relation to one another--indicating, obviously, a tendency of undergraduates to stampede hither and you. As popular as Economics is today, it was even more attractive to students in 1910; at that time the enrollment of Ec. A surpassed that of every other course...
...wish to protest against a distortion of fact in Monday's Crimson concerning the athletic secretary for dormitory men. While the Student Council committee was indispensable in obtaining this program, the bulk of the work was nevertheless done by a committee of the Student Union, consisting of the following residents of Claverly Hall: Kwyn Abrahams '41, John Finn '41, and Paul Woodman '41. This H. S. U. committee organized the basketball team which showed the H. A. A. that dormitory men were interested in athletics, and it was their persistence that finally obtained the program. I fear that the prevailing...