Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correspondent, his hands stained with chemicals and his brow furrowed, informs us of a lecture he was constrained to hear in the bowels of Mallinckrodt, where is is taking an elementary chemistry course. The icy and drab instructor, he tells us, confronted his shivering students one afternoon with a more than usually bellicose air. "You are to take all readings in the laboratory in your notebooks," he said. "You are not to make notations on any other paper, of any sort. If you do, it will be to your disadvantage; the assistants have been instructed to take all miscellaneous notes...
...These drab stories bring us quite naturally to the Philosophy Department. It seems that one day not long ago, a student entered a section in Philosophy 1a, totally and blindly unprepared, and found himself faced with a quiz. The question demanded an account of parallelism and interactionalism. These words the student had never seen. But he knew something of the ways of the thinkers. He constructed an elaborate and circumstantial grouping of ambiguities, with frequent mention of the two words in the question. Then he handed in his paper, and walked away, somewhat down in the mouth. When the paper...
...catalogued. Neither does the past contain the key to the future or the plan of the present, for, perversely, the more it is studied the less it shows. History when glimpsed hastily or through a mirage presents an exciting panorama; carefully considered, looked at in detail, it is a drab plain, where facts lie side by side, and even the law of cause and effect is questioned. Containing examples of everything, history can teach only the lesson read into...
Chicago's drab old Auditorium, which made opera news long before Samuel Insull ever thought of building his handsome Civic Opera House up on the river bank, last week made news twice. Mr. Insull's theatre was as dark as a haunted house, gave every promise of remaining so. But the Auditorium was fully lighted and will be for some time to come. Fortune Gallo's 20-year-old San Carlo Opera Company ("Dollar Opera") began an indefinite engagement there, in its first week had record sellouts for five nights running (18,325 paid admissions...
...Militiamen in grey & white from the "Old Seventh" Regiment; the jist Infantry in blue & white; the 102nd Engineers in scarlet; the 102nd Medical Unit in maroon; the "Old Sixty-Ninth" in blue with green facings; the "Washington Grays" in grey with flashing sabres. Cheerful CCC workers livened their olive drab uniforms with sprigs of hemlock in their caps. Their banner announced: "We Do Our Part For The NRA; We Work In The Woods...