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...Absolute hokum!* That would be 150 feet of travel per day. The fastest moving glaciers in the world, in New Zealand and Greenland, only move 30 feet per day." Dismissing the report from Scientist Geist that heavy rains have possibly released soft material along the contact points and lubricated the glacier's groove, causing it to move. Glacialist Washburn explained that glaciers move because of pressure in their catchment basins at their sources. Alaska's glaciers are survivals of the ice age on the North American continent. Washburn believes that Alaska's glaciers are dwindling, will eventually...
...cracks in Two Hundred Were Chosen are literally calked with cinematic hokum and bucolic humor of the "Hold 'er, Newt, she's a-r'arin' " school, but beneath all this there is plainly discernible a sincere and imaginative view of an unusual social experiment. A woman fed up with the childish bickering of the males shouts the play's most astringent line: "There aren't any men up here-only farmers...
...book [Was College Worth While?], but judging from the reviews he has lifted a sentence out of its context and omitted a qualifying phrase completely, without seemingly offending his sense of journalistic honor. In case anyone takes sufficient interest, which I doubt, to prove Mr. Tunis's conclusions hokum-except perhaps as they apply to his own class-he could make a good start by comparing myself as the awful example quoted by Mr. Tunis, and the actual facts. Mentally I was good enough to complete the four-years requirements at Harvard in three years with cum laude ranking...
...editor and onetime Washington correspondent of the Buffalo (N. Y.) evening News, was turning out press releases by the thousand, buttons, sunflowers and windshield stickers by the million. Working boss of Hoover publicity in the 1928 campaign, Press-agent Kirchhofer announced when appointed to his current post: "The usual hokum won't go in this campaign...
...turned out to be so fresh and attractive that he was convinced that he had seen the nearest approach to Utopia on earth. Java for the most part left him cold, as did Sumatra and Siam. He says that "never having been to California," Bangkok is the most hokum place he has ever seen...