Word: mazes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dunking; an air-conditioned pie pan; a combination vanity case, walking stick, beach cape and umbrella. This is the organization which turned up in former years with a cow-tail restrainer (to prevent milkers from being switched); a funnel to facilitate the insertion of keys in keyholes; a mirror-maze mousetrap, hundreds of similar marvels...
...than there is a phalanx of talent returning in events not touched by graduation: Torby Macdonald in the 220; Gene Clark, Dave Simboll, and Bob Nichols in the two-mile; Don Donahue, Maze Fernald, and Roger Schafer in the hurdles; Partlow in the broad jump; Marshall MacIsaac and Steve Madey in the vault; Downing and Howle Mendel in the shot and Nat Heard in the discus; and Big Bill Shallow in the hammer throw...
...beginning of the year until the end. There was plenty of room in the cyric three springs past when the H.Y.P conference cracked its shell, for it was a lone eagle of a sort. Since that time conferences without end have incubated; and nowadays collegians are dazed by a maze, which must provoke indifference if not revulsion. Model Leagues of Nations, Government Councils, Guardian Conferences, Harvard Congresses, etcetera ad infinitum...
...trod the maze of error round, Long wandering in the winding glade; And now the torch of truth is found, It only shows us where we strayed...
...that the unmathematically inclined reader may skip these without destroying the unity of the context. And this move has been well chosen, for despite the author's avowed aim to present a simple explanation of less technical aspects of relativity, the lay reader becomes quickly befuddled in a bewildering maze of abstract mathematical formulae. But if one discounts these two chapters, the work presents a warm and appealing picture of this modest, publicity dodging genius, whose efforts in the cause of international peace and tolerance have won him almost as much renown as his purely intellectual activity...