Word: enigma
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...will be trying to bring his four-lap efforts down to the 53's again. A great deal of laboratory work is the biggest obstacle to Jim's breaking into the 52-second class again, so until the season is well under way, he must be regarded as an enigma...
...Jesuit Edward Boyd Barrett, in The Jesuit Enigma, declared that Jesuits are urged to look people straight in the nose, presumably to disconcert them. Good Jesuits consider this romancing-a distortion of the truth that sight, like other senses, may cause sinning...
...courthouse square. For twelve years he has packed his observation into a series of bitter, imaginative, extraordinarily powerful but extremely uneven books. For the last nine years he has been successful, regarded by critics as the most talented but least predictable Southern writer, by his fellow townsmen as an enigma, by himself as a social historian, who hopes that by recording the minute changes in Oxford's life he can suggest the changes that are transforming the whole South...
Three factors make the English Department an enigma for this year. First, the loss of Professor Greenough and of Professor Lake cannot help but be felt. Only Professor Lowes now remains of Harvard's legendary English teachers. Second, the basic changes in the tutorial staff means that a large number of students in the field will have to find new tutors, and the Sophomores will, in general, get newly appointed tutors who have yet to learn the ropes. Finally, the omitting of such a basic course in the field as 52, Victorian Literature, is difficult to condone, especially since criticism...
...Yellow Jack was being released last week, the Satevepost published a searching review of the yellow-fever problem entitled Yellow Jack Breaks Jail, by Physician Victor G. Heiser. Its discouraging findings were that the enigma of yellow fever has not yet, after all, been completely solved. Theory has been that the Aedes mosquito was the only carrier, and that the virus required a human host. But exhaustive research has since proved that the Aedes aegypti mosquito is not the only carrier, and that men are not the only hosts to the yellow fever virus; that it can be harbored...