Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mentor, stated that the referees were not uniform in their rulings and that many were over-technical. Only Oswald Tower, of Andover, head of the joint rules committee, defended the referees saying that a great deal of the strictness in a game depended on the playing and not so much on the officiating...
...king. Since the queen was with child, and since the astrologers said that it was a boy, the crown was carried in and placed upon the queen above the supposed location of the unborn infant's head. In this respect the birth of Alphonso must have been a much less regal event...
...influence of this latest form of entertainment is not confined to foreign parts. If the movies have made the American nation conscious of clothes and polite manners, it is also claimed that the talkies will bring the country's speech to a high standard. Perhaps it is not too much to expect that the talkies will give the American people a solidarity of accent. In the hands of a few producers lies the fate of the nation's tongue...
...have already determined some of the essential electrical properties of these ionized gas films. With this information, we have been able to determine from simple power measurements on a cable just how much power is being lost as ionization in the destructive air films. Naturally, the life of the cable is associated with the amount of this loss. Experiments have shown that cables which have the highest value of this ionization loss also appear to be the poorest cables. A paper on this subject was presented at the last Midwinter Convention of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers...
...felt that last year's arrangement was not productive of sufficient results to justify its continued operation this year, especially in consideration of the time which it required of Seniors already burdened with approaching divisional. Furthermore, it is believed that since Freshmen receive so much advice from other sources as to the nature of the different fields of concentration, more is not necessary, as the choice in any case rests largely on the Freshman's personal inclination...