Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than two hours and at relatively slight expense, accomplish the tour of the world.' For this it is only necessary to be present at a session of the Assembly of Nations.' To anyone who has not been at Geneva during the last few years such a statement seems a gross exaggeration. It is none the less true. For Geneva is not what it was before the War. It is a great deal more. Prior to 1920 Geneva and vicinity were favorite haunts of American travellers. The beautiful lake, the clear, crisp air, the surrounding hills, Mont Blanc in the pink...
...working with solutions it is necessary to use alternating current because direct current causes chemical action at the electrodes, which would cause gross errors in the measurement. Professor Jones uses as the source of the alternating current an audion vacuum tube hooked up with capacities and inductances so that it "howls", in the vernacular of the radio fan, although in this case it might better be described as "singing" because it gives a beautiful pure note of single frequency, and can be made to give any note desired within the range of audibility...
...taste in its editorial of the 20th entitled, "Executive Persecution," in which the Department of Justice was made the object of attack. To anyone who is familiar with the facts in the case, there can be only two explanations of the attitude taken by the writer; either gross ignorance of the facts involved, or partisan motivation. I cannot believe the writer has been naive enough to show partisanship in an attack on partisanship; and, as I prefer to be charitable, I must assume the former alternative. To anyone who has followed the matters discussed by the writer, it is quite...
...dollars the State Convention of Lions clubs secured a real lion, guaranteed not to get too rough with his name-sakes, and the Central Park zoo stands ready to supply any organization with its chosen animal, all the way from snakes to hippopotami, at a charge depending on the gross tonnage of the beast...
...Third Young Men with Same H. M. Fox '28 A Girl Marie Geare Second Girl Mary Forsberg A Mother Grace Michelman Her Elder Daughter Miss Hoyman A Younger Daughter Miss Lewis Baboon-Faced Policeman C. D. Gowing '28 Newsboy with Loud Voice H. L. Kozol '27 Second Newsboy Ernest Gross '27 Third Newsboy H. L. Ellison '28 Plainclothes Man W. B. Dunne '27 Susan Kettle Rhodita Edwards Kennedy Biggs, Celebrated Novelist D. L. Dickson '27 A He Intellectual W. B. Wilson '26 A She Intellectual Olga Frothingham A Tea Drinker Harriet Huntress A Second Tea Drinker Grace Michelman Third...