Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case of a man who risks his life for an ideal only to have the world disbelieve him seems to be the inevitable fate of Mr. Heilner, of the American Museum of Natural History, who recently returned from an expedition to the Bahamas with the news that sharks are harmless. According to Mr. Heilner, he exposed himself to these much-maligned creatures repeatedly without their showing the least interest in him as a possible article of diet. It is to be feared, however, that even before such evidence the popular mind will cling to its delusion. Generations of South...
...only possible fault to be found with the entire issue is with one of Blackburn's sketches depicting an incident of Harvard Club life which is so like an illustration in a recent New Yorker as to seem almost plagiaristic. Detailed comparison will show that it is not too close for safety, but the impression it creates is somewhat unhappy...
...continue to produce issues in the current vein there is every reason to believe that it will regain the prestige it acquired with the publication of its "Transcript" issue and its still more celebrated and creditable Lasky number. That it should again play a ponderable part in Cambridge life must be the ambition of every editor, and a few New Yorker parodies would serve as admirable pick-me-ups to cure the hangover from which it has suffered. What Lampy needs now is not salts, but a few tall ones to keep up its good, nay, excellent spirits...
...interesting to know the state of Otway's health when he wrote The Orphan and the countless other minute facts such as might be required on a daily examination paper in many of our English courses. But art is long and life is short as several astute gentlemen have observed before out time, and such microscopic examinations of limited fields are quire meaningless to the large majority inadequately prepared for these courses. (Yale News...
...best known of Baumes Laws states among its provisions that any criminal who is convicted for a fourth time of felony is automatically sentenced to life imprisonment. Serious criticism has recently been directed at this act because it is felt that injustice is often inflicted. This law was passed in New York in 1926 and has since been adopted by several other States. It has been a subject for much discussion among the foremost lawyers of the nation...