Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rather an interesting commentary on the immense gulf which separates man from the rest of the animal kingdom, that with all his supposed intellectual power, his mastery of science and physical nature, he is practically unable to look into the mind of his dog. This inability to comprehend certainly the workings of the animal mind has led to two extremes, the one typified by Descartes, who, as a serious part of his philosophy, contends that animals are as insensible as a stone or wood, and the other by the pseudo-scientific sentimentalists fill the libraries of our youth with their...
...these, after most of her other difficulties were solved, were long in the throes of rate wars. And after the railroads were quieted and regulated, two wide new vistas opened, calling Birmingham to fresh effort-the vistas of enormous power from nearby Muscle Shoals and of egress to the Gulf of Mexico down the Warrior River...
...Bigelow '01, Lecturer and Research Curator in Zoology, to study the dynamic cause of the Gulf Stream current off the North Atlantic-Coast of the United States...
...than many other colleges and universities which are not blessed with an annual income of $50,000 devoted solely to research in various fields of activity. How various and how important those fields are only a cursory glance will show. Mr. Bigelow will study the dynamic cause of the Gulf Stream; Mr. Cabot the effects of prison terms upon the future careers of men; Mr. McAdie the electrification of fogs and clouds in order to improve weather forecasting; Mr. Schlesinger the urbanization of population between the Civi War and 1900. These are typical examples...
...Orleans, the one city in the U. S. with a sensuous background, puts on the show year after year. As the last whoops of one carnival die out in the warm spring breezes off the Gulf, diligent managers are promoting the program for the ensuing year. They call in artists, discuss costumes and motifs; they plan and plot, calculate. The show must go on! It is a mint. Then there is the tradition which must not be overlooked...