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...bachelor-Senator might become quite a social lion in Washington, but Dick Russell is no partygoer. "I got caught up with that during my first year in Washington," he says. "I went up there with the country idea that if you were invited anywhere you had to go or you would be impolite. That liked to killed me the first year...
...When the body is not getting enough food, especially sugar, the pituitary gland apparently sees to it that the brain receives the lion's share of the available sugar, because that is the only kind of fuel the brain can use. Dr. Lillian Recant of St. Louis, trying to find out how the pituitary does this job, had one new clue. It is not only the pituitary's growth hormone that serves as a regulator, but some other secretion still undiscovered...
...Beard the Lion ..." It all began with Roget's habit of listing words according to the way botanists classify plants and their families. But when he finally retired from practice in 1840, he decided to extend his listings further. To Roget, the abuse of language was becoming a menace. "A misapplied or misapprehended term," said he, "is sufficient to give rise to ... interminable disputes; a misnomer has turned the tide of popular opinion; a verbal sophism has decided a party question; an artful watchword, thrown among combustible materials, has kindled the flame of deadly warfare . . ." Roget hoped not only...
...classes (abstract relations, space, matter, intellect, volition, affections). Then under each class he listed the pertinent one-word topics, following these with a rich array of synonyms, colloquialisms and comparisons. The topic courage, for instance, involved for him everything from audacity to spunk, Perseus to gamecock, to "beard the lion in his den." Roget also included appropriate quotations: e.g., "Every dog is a lion at home" . . . "The valiant never taste of death but once...
...solicit funds from alumni than has been made previously and that he would probably head an unofficial undergraduate committee. A drive opened in the spring of 1950 has reached only a $21,000 total so far, with the January, 1951 gift of $20,000 by Bright providing the lion's share...