Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hens may keep their position in the pecking order throughout life. They remember other individuals in their set after isolation of half a year. Among birds, only parrots are superior to hens in the length of time they can remember faces. Pecking orders are found in many groups of animals but are often modified by other social factors...
...paid them. Director William Wyler, who had been given a vacation with all expenses paid, returned to Goldwyn $25,000 advanced to him in salary and expense money to be let off directing it. Miriam Hopkins offered to pay anything in reason not to star in it, at length agreed to give in and work if Goldwyn got Gregory LaCava to direct. Goldwyn got LaCava, but after reading the script LaCava left the lot. Andrea Leeds, a bit player, announced that she would rather starve than play the minor role for which she had been cast. Soon thereafter a large...
...Lowell House Scientific Society, an organization open to all undergraduates in the college, held its final meeting of the year last night in Lowell House. Alfred C. Redfield professor of Philosophy, gave a lecture on "The Physiology, of Snapping One's Fingers", and spoke at length on the dynamics of contractions in skeletal muscle...
Julian L. Coolidge '95, Master, made the featured address of the evening. He spoke of the traditions Lowell has which may be traced back of its eight years of existence. Richards M. Glimmer, Director of Admissions, spoke at length about the workings and aims of the Board of Admissions. Elliot H. Knowlton '38, now Chairman of the House Committee, read from the diary of a member of Lowell House...
...Georgius Rex!" With a rustle like the wind, all the crowded stands of Westminster Abbey rose up with a flash of crimson and ermine, gold, diamonds, silver, blue, scarlet and green. The helmeted Gentlemen-at-Arms snapped to attention and down the deep blue carpet that stretched the full length of the Abbey came George VI to his Coronation with all the pomp and panoply of a medieval ceremony more than 1,000 years...