Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bitter and prolonged competition for the league championship that would undoubtedly result, the position and powers of the coach would receive the usual undue emphasis. Moreover, the formation of a league necessarily means the resigning of some of the independence of each member; that the Athletic Committee must retain full powers over the management of Harvard athletics is in truth the vital objection to plans for intercollegiate league organization of baseball...
General Patrick has carried American aviation many strides forward, and holds a high position in the eyes, of his subordinates. Nothing better illustrates his character than the fact that he is the only army officer of his rank who has the privilege of wearing the insignia of a full-fledged filer. When over sixty years old he insisted on being taught to fly like any other airman, because, as he said, he wanted to experience and understand all the risks that his subordinates took. He has thus the record for age at the time-he "won his wings...
Beethoven died in Vienna in 1827. Kings walked to his grave. And later, Wagner said: "Until a Raphael be struck with blindness in the full freshness of his powers, Beethoven is without a compeer in the history of all ages, either in misery or in bliss...
Bishop Brown, in Galion, Ohio, shows signs of fight. The church is full of heretics, says he, and he will not get out until the other heretics get out. Then he makes the crack which is intended to smart in high places: "Is it my theology or my economics that is being attacked?" It is, of course, his economics, which even the Modernist handles with care...
...salt or sugar concentrations at a certain temperature, in certain acid solutions, pricking it with a needle. In 1899 he caused the unfertilized eggs of sea-urchins to 'develop into swimming larvae and remain alive. Similar results were obtained with starfish, worms, mollusks. In 1916 he developed full-grown frogs (a highly organized animal) of both sexes, by the same artificial process. His frogs were not limited to a single sterile generation, but continued to have offspring. Specifically, said Loeb, individual life begins with the acceleration of the rate of oxidation in the egg, and ends with the cessation...