Word: mays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proving as great an improviser as he was once an actor, he has turned the theatre into ad-Liberty Hall. He says anything that comes into his head. When he is well wound up, My Dear Children may bumble on till after midnight. Once a fire engine sounded in the street. Sang out Barrymore: "I hope they get to the fire in time." Once he saw Ned Sparks in the audience. Walking to the footlights and pointing, Barrymore shouted: "There's that old bastard Ned Sparks." Once he couldn't hear the prompter in the wings, yelled: "Give...
...boys in the Big Ten: Chicago's Walter Eckersall, Illinois' Red Grange, Minnesota's Bronko Nagurski and Herbert Joesting, Michigan's Willie Heston, Harry Kipke, Benny Friedman. But Tom Harmon can run like Grange, buck like Joesting-and pass and kick besides. Although he may not be a point-a-minute man he could almost qualify as a half-a-point-a-minute man. In the first three games of the season (in which he played a total of 124 minutes), he scored 52 points: seven touchdowns, seven points-after-touchdown and one field goal...
...marvelously convenient process of regeneration in lower animals works, no one knows. One theory is that their bodies contain undifferentiated, "totipotent" cells capable of growing into any organ under some unexplained architectural guidance. Professor James Walter Wilson of Brown University hazarded the guess that higher animals, perhaps even man, may harbor these cells, but that they have become so feeble in the process of evolution that they yield to the quicker-acting, wound-healing mechanism which covers a wound site with scar tissue. If this mechanism could be halted, so as to give the totipotent cells a chance to rebuild...
...Another discovery, nearer home, concerned the Cepheid variables-a class of stars, mostly yellow supergiants, which fluctuate regularly in brightness. The Harvardmen noticed that in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a neighbor galaxy to the Milky Way, the bigger Cepheids were mostly concentrated toward the centre of the galaxy. This may mean that they were brought there by the operation of galactic gravity over a long time, or that when the stars originally were formed from the parent nebula, conditions favored the formation of big stars in the region of greatest density. In either case the Cepheid variables seem destined...
...University bolstered up this theory by publishing results of her hearing tests on 1,000 English school children. Middle ear deafness, found Dr. Kerridge, "is about four times as common, on the average, under poor social conditions as it is under good social conditions; in the poorest places ... it may be nearly ten times as common as in a good environment, nearly a quarter of the child population being affected. Climate, housing, and the mixing of children seem to have little effect...