Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told the press about one L. H. Anon. Eight years ago, said President Farrand, he found in his mail a cashier's check for $20,000. It was accompanied by a letter signed L. H. Anon, explaining that Cornell might use the money as it saw fit but warning President Farrand not to inquire into the donor's identity. Cornell cashed the check. Next year President Farrand got another...
...Oregon, in mapping the nerves of the lungs. Despite all this, Dr. Miller humbly and urgently begins his monograph: "There remain many problems to be solved." For instance, does oxygen diffuse directly into the blood stream, or do the lungs first do something to oxygen to make it fit for the blood? How do filtrable viruses get through the respiratory system to cause diseases like measles...
Michael knew Julia was out of his class when it came to acting; but he had very definite ideas about a career, proceeded to fit her in. He saved money, borrowed some more, started their own London company with Julia as star. When they bought their own theatre they hit a success after two failures, went on from there. And he allowed Julia to marry him, even became quite fond of her. Julia's passion for Michael finally died a natural death. Her Maughamish reaction to the realization that she no longer loved her husband was to stretch, sigh...
...soldiers' taking off all the silver that was not buried including a silver urn that had come to the family from General Francis Marion, "the Swamp Fox." This Yankee soldier beat the handsome silver vessel against an early blossoming plum tree until it was flat and would fit into his saddle...
...Royal family. In the eyes of good middle-class people like Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Baldwin this magazine is "most vulgar." Recently a close friend of George VI rang up the editor, suggesting a denial be printed of rumors circulating on the Stock Exchange that another mild epileptic "falling fit" had been suffered by His Majesty. This denial, since it came virtually from the honest King-Emperor himself, could be accepted as the nearest thing possible to the lowdown on a matter of utmost interest to British businessmen in view of the approaching Coronation in which they have so many millions...