Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yale University had never had a guest lecturer quite like the count. He was an egg-bald old (69) gentleman who dressed in Army-style suntans, refused to wear a coat or tie, and spent most of his time in a chromium wheelchair (he was badly wounded in World War I). At times, he would bellow at his audience ("Can you hear me in the rear echelon?"), then let his voice trail to a mumble...
Vitamin U is also found in celery, unpasteurized milk, fresh greens, raw egg yolks, cereal grasses, certain animal and vegetable fats. Dr. Cheney says cautiously that his experiment is not final proof that vitamin U heals ulcers, but "indicates it may be the case...
...Egg Coiffure. He began interviewing teachers and students, principals and athletic coaches. In their consensus, San Antonio's 26 fraternities and sororities were a good deal worse than a nuisance. "They have ceased to be social groups," one principal told him. "They have become gangs." The kids' societies were going in for lavish parties in downtown hotels. Some of them cost as much as $25 a head. One boy had been nabbed for stealing a watch. His reason: to get some money to pay his dance assessment...
Teachers complained of absenteeism after all-night initiations. Parents were fed up with having their daughters come home with egg in their hair. Principal T. Guy Rogers of the Thomas Jefferson High School had another complaint: "We have had athletes who are not willing to play with non-fraternity boys." Other principals complained of snobbery: most fraternities wouldn't take in Mexican-American students...
...Rock? Blume believes he has "never made a virtue of obscurity, but there's always more than one level of interpretation to a thing. For instance the rock symbol is bound to be enigmatic. Biblically it's the deity, the source. This rock started out spherical, egg-shaped. Then in the process of working it out I made a fission, a break in it. There's a lot of destruction going on all through the picture-the phosphorescence of decay-but I think the emphasis is on construction. Compositionally the figures and the smoke all spiral toward...