Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Hiram took stock of "intensive study." The faculty voted 24-to-3 to continue it. The students, who study for nine-week periods such subjects as chemistry, economics, or biology and then abandon them for the year, were even more enthusiastic, 88% for, 4% against, 6% undecided. Dull students as well as smart ones liked intensive study. Hiram thought that "a possible trend toward a more introverted type of student was indicated." One student observed: "If you put in four-fifths of your time on economics for nine weeks, you're bound to learn something about...
...staff a definite formula : "We realized that subscribers to our paper were also readers of at least one of the other [evening] papers, and ... we carried no rewrites. . . . We published a new paper every morning. . . . We also ignored the theory that a morning paper to succeed should be dull. All stories were made short and snappy, with no turn heads [stones continued on following pages...
...silky grey beard, spread over his hospital blanket, jerked each time he gasped the oxygen which an electric motor blew upon his face. Another midnight passed, and attendants of Brooklyn's Jewish Hospital left Aaron Handler, dying of heart disease, alone for a while. Then a dull boom from his room recalled nurses and internes on a dead run. They found Aaron Handler's beard a shriveling, stinking torch fanned by the breeze of oxygen. Whether the electric pump emitted a combustive spark, or whether his beard generated a spark by rubbing against the woolen blanket will never...
Negro Composer William Grant Still's dull, pretentious Ebon Chronicle followed, then Van Phillips' saucy, syncopated fugue called Thank You, Mr. Bach and a harp solo of the St. Louis Blues by World's Hottest Harpist Casper Reardon. Biggest hit of the day was All Points West by Rodgers & Hart. Here, against a tragic throbbing of strings and weird wind effects, Baritone Raymond Middleton Jr. called trains, recited the cynical, sentimental, sniggering thoughts of a train announcer, was unexpectedly shot by a stray bullet...
...result is a handsome gift book in which Alice Huger Smith's paintings of lagoons, salt creeks, rice fields in winter, threshing and harvesting scenes, easily carry off all honors. Dr. Sass's discussion is about evenly divided between interesting facts on the Rice Coast and dull arguments about slavery, the main point of which is that a true Athenian democracy was developing on the Rice Coast before the Abolitionists spoiled it. A Plantation Boyhood tells of the life at Smithfield, rich, well-run 715-acre plantation on the Combahee, two days' ride from Charleston...