Word: nordic
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...Model for the Field Museum's typical Nordic male was a professional from Brooklyn, N. Y. Commended on his perfect muscular development, he replied: "I've won all the cups they offer for the best body proportions . . . so I decided to make a book of the best photographs that have been taken of me. Now the book has such a sale I don't have to work any more. . . . The girls call me 'God's Gift to Women...
...Crimson, from the editorial by Dr. Jung certainly enters to Nazi sentiment and in juxtaposition with such trash as flowed from Professor Goring's pen is enough to suggest that the scientific conscience of the great Zurich psychologist is not inflexible. Anyhow, those who are on the alert for Nordic bullies or who, for one reason or another, wish to discredit Dr. Jung, have seized upon this solitary leaf from this published works in order to prove that he is unworthy of Harvard honors. As far as I know there are no other examples of this kind either before...
...publication of his work, kept an Irish mistress, studied military strategy in preparation for the World Revolution. Reading constantly, Engels learned "to stutter in 20 languages," learned Persian in three weeks, once wrote that he was going to take a fortnight off to master Gothic before studying Old Nordic and Old Saxon. Less ambitious, Marx merely studied Russian, Serbian, Slavic. In one period when he could not work, the scholar read for recreation two volumes on physiology, Kolliker's Histology, Spurzheim's The Anatomy of the Brain and the Nervous System, Schwann & Schleiden's On Cell Matter...
Since then, Nebraska has won four Big Six championships. Coach Bible says that winning games gives him less satisfaction than it used to but losing them is more painful. At Nebraska, his football squads usually contain a plethora of oversized Nordic farm boys. Most Midwestern teams enjoy elaborate junkets lasting from two days to a week. Coach Bible's squads rarely play far from Lincoln, arrive only a few hours before the game. A large source of income to his colleagues of comparable distinction comes from newspaper writing. Coach Bible rejects offers of this kind on the ground that...
...Exchange of thoughts with heroic, heathen, go-ahead Nordic maiden from the country desired by Germans of same beliefs...