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Word: getting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instruction offered by this institution is purposely not of the spot-passage memorize-this-and-you'll-get-a-C sort of thing obtainable at a tutoring school. Perhaps as howhere else at Harvard this band of volunteers offers to teach men confused by the freedom of college the proper methods of correlating and assimilating the information given out in books and lectures. Proper recognition of such unselfish effort may scarcely be expected, but there are many to whom this work has been a boon in the past who will be grateful for the proposed extension of the present admirable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRATERNITAS | 3/26/1929 | See Source »

...Dark a few months ago, at Christopher Morley's Theatre in Hoboken (see above). This is another by the author of After Dark. Dragged from its pre-war (Civil) dust and presented on Broadway, its thunderous plot is played "straight" by a capable cast. For those who can get enjoyment out of making fun of abandoned sentimentalities, it provides a pleasant evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...Hardwick Nevin had moments of realizing all this while he was writing his play about Alexander the Great, for he abandons the modern idiom from time to time in his treatment and launches forth into high-sounding blank verse. The result is confusion. Neither young Alexander nor the audience get anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...like all animals, needs salt (sodium chloride) physiologically. But his taste for salt is an acquired habit. Cannibals, Eskimos and other carnivorous peoples, use no salt. Like dogs, cats, jackals, lions, they get their requisite sodium chloride from the flesh they eat raw, or roasted. (Boiled flesh loses its salt.) Most men, however, are omnivorous. The salt they get from fish, fowl and beast is too little for bodily needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Apple Salt | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Alkalinity increases because carbon dioxide escapes through the shell from the white. Then the white absorbs carbon dioxide from the yolk, only to lose it again through the shell. Result of the loss is that the yolks get flabby, the whites watery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Storage Eggs | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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