Word: lengths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years we have been familiar with the fact that the earth's rotation is slowing down, that the day is lengthening, and that the moon is receeding; we have learned that after an interval of some fifty thousand million years the month and the day will be the same length again, as they were at the time the earth-moon system was formed. That equality of month and day in the future will be forty seven of our days in length; at the time of the origin of the moon from the earth it was less than five...
...their chronological order. Many of these he finds to be isolated examples not substantiated by sufficient evidence, based, in some instances, on not more than one speci- men. These he lists as extreme variants of a type. Some of these genera are differentiated by such characteristics as length of hair and length of beard which do not seem to him fundamental because specimens from the same limited regions present such wide variation in these respects...
...have been cold at the Harvard-Yale game a week ago Saturday, but it had nothing on the Boston College-Holy Cross affair played the day before yesterday in Fenway Park, the regular domicile of the tail-end Red Sox. There was a freezing blast sweeping the length of the gridiron which made it extremely difficult for the players to hold on to the ball and for the spectators to convince themselves that they really gave a hoot who won the game. The specs got pretty badly fooled by the weather conditions, good seats in the middle of the field...
Three minor sports, basketball, fencing, and wrestling will open a newly inaugurated form of competition this morning at 8.30 o'clock at the H. A. A. in which all three will be combined. This competition will be six weeks in length, each candidate spending two weeks on each of the three sports...
...short novel, The Obelisk, is a painfully accurate account of adolescence's nightmares. Erskine Caldwell's Midsummer Passion is a Chekhovian incident of yokel bawdiness and embarrassment, e. e. cummings, noted licentiate of verse, has some fun with prose and prose ideas. Paul Green contributes a full-length play, Tread the Green Grass. There are eleven short stories (so called for convenience); 44 poems, and an essay by Critic Yvor Winters, The Extension and Reintegration of the Human Spirit through the Poetry, Mainly French and American, Since Poe and Baudelaire...