Word: mouthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...RING OF THE LÖWENSKÖLDS- Selma Lagerlof-Doubleday, Doran ($3). Selma Lagerlöf (pronounced "Lahgerlef") has a broad, Scandinavian face with a broad thin mouth that is so straight it looks as if it turned down a little at the corners. She wears her grey hair piled up in a plain, old-fashioned pompadour. Her eyes are steely, steady. A little dimple in her left cheek keeps her from looking like a pretty grim old party. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909). She is the only woman among...
...Olympic trials. He subsequently won his events at the Games. He had just won the finals in the 220 and was to run in the finals 440 in 15 minutes. With a sweater thrown around his shoulders, he was lolling about the track with a large cigar in his mouth. When asked whether smoking was not Contrary to training rules, he replied that if such were the case he would never think of sacrificing his personal taste for such an inconsequential thing as running...
...much greater proportion of crust to filling (see Euclid on area of circles). . . ." To this Earnest Elmo Calkins, famed advertising man and author, replied in a letter: "Square pies are not new. . . . My mother always baked her pies in square tins, or rather oblong rectangles. There were eight mouths in the family, and the standard circular pie cut into pieces of eight allowed but 45 degrees per mouth. True, there were four corners to the eight-section pie with crust on two sides, but . . . that was why you ate pie. If you preferred filling to crust, you might just...
Students of the history of science may well date the birth of modern Oceanography from December 21, 1872, the day when the Challenger set sail from Ports-mouth, England, on her memorable voyage. Thenceforth, with every fresh venture below the surface of the sea, such a flood of new facts came pouring in that it seemed for a time as though this fact catching could never lose its novelty. One great deep-sea expedition led to another and more was learned about the sea during the last thirty years of the nineteenth century than had been during the preceding three...
...tutorial system. This stand, however, was later temporarily modified, and prospective engineers were admitted into both Dunster and Lowell House. But the University has not as yet made any definite reversal of its original decision, and the present acceptance of applications from Engineering students only continues a hand to mouth policy...