Word: lipping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just west of T. W. A.'s transcontinental stop at Winslow, Meteor Crater is about 4.000 ft. in diameter, 570 ft. deep from the lip of the rim to the bottom. The force of the impact raised the crater's lip 120 ft. above the surrounding plain. The amount of weathering and other evidence in the bowl indicate that it was formed not less than 700 years ago and not more than 5,000 years. The Indians of the region have a legend that one of their gods descended to Earth at the spot in a pillar...
Both organizations pay lip service to the lofty ideal of Free Inquiry, but with uncrring judgment the student body has given its patronage, and not a few of its nickles and dimes, to the group which chose to burlesque this ideal. But this is not all. Once gathered before the rostrum of James and Santayana, they pilloried the woman who stood there. With conduct that smacked of Union, Square they threw courtesy to the winds, catcalled, heiled, and howled...
Trying to find out why inefficient readers read poorly, Professor Buswell discovered that many of them "vocalized," i. e., moved their lips or otherwise indicated that they were laboriously pronouncing one word at a time instead of taking in several. He tested his subjects with a passage of tongue-twisters. Because tongue-twisters make silent readers as well as lip-movers vocalize, they slowed down the efficient readers more than the inefficient ones. From this test Dr. Buswell concluded that the schools' old oral method of teaching reading was partly responsible for people's bad reading habits...
Said Professor Schaper's good friend, famed Historian Charles A. Beard: "... A monument to freedom of inquiry." In Oklahoma, William Schaper, now white-haired, bit his lip to hold back the tears, faltered: "It is so sudden I hardly know what to say. I never have borne a grudge against any man involved in my dismissal. Of course I am profoundly grateful...
...poor as Thomas, flailing awkwardly with his right hand sometimes ahead of his left, tapped him at will and won the round. In the second, Thomas landed a low blow and was penalized the round, but it did not belong to him anyway. Schmeling had cut his nose and lip...