Word: keys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oklahoma City an editor sitting before his littered desk, flicked his cigaret to the floor, and turning deliberately to his typewriter put his finger on the right Key. He wrote: "Roosevelt has bet the country's last dollar on a single card and if he wins the result will be glorious...
...explanation of this neology lies the key to the Baconian dilemma; it is with that explanation that I have concerned myself in "Man vs. Ape." To that end, much of the book has been devoted to a code, and the conclusion of my book is the conclusion of the code. Obviously such a book cannot be quickly read, digested, or judged; the kind of approach which it demands is the kind of approach which Harvard men, above all, should have. The process of obtaining it will prepare the men of Harvard to preach the gospel of truth in the four...
Scientist Compton and his colleagues are content that the facts they are amassing about "nature's laws" serve as a key to this world and possibly the next. In deed many persons believe that science, complete in itself, has effectively displaced God. At such thinkers last fortnight was directed a thoroughgoing flaying by Scientist Compton's superior at the University of Chicago, President Robert Maynard Hutchins, who is also a clergyman's son. Accepting Science's true achievements, he nevertheless damned it for proffering ''green facts" and "raw empiricism'' as solutions...
...Decline of the West to put him to sleep. Unenergetic, he spent last summer at Sands Point, L. I. within a few feet of the beach, never went swimming. A slow writer, he works on a typewriter, rarely redoes his copy. Other books: The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, Red Harvest, The Dain Curse...
...fortnight Professor John Clinton Lazenby waited until all 53 young men & women in his course in secondary education were seated. Then he rose and quietly announced that three-fourths of them were cheaters. He had discovered it by comparing their answers to a recent examination with a set of "key" answers. There would be. snapped the professor, a re-examination next...