Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then, too, the great number of books in Widener requires a complicated catalogue. This unwieldy file is a great, black plague to the undergraduate. He is forced to wait a long while before the books he desires can be dug from the stacks. In other words, he, unlike the graduate student, cannot get the books he wants when he wants to. And since only advanced students and teachers can get stack permits, Widener's size, which is its blessing, has also proved to be its burden. Clearly the graduate student has the weighted side of the scales...
...Swedish reaction to this was not to set up Labor as a counter-demagogue. Instead, taking its famed Middle Way, Swedish consumers banded together in the Kingdom's now widely known cooperatives. These in effect yardstick the food prices that can be charged in Sweden, for their members number about one-third of the population, and the Swedish cooperatives now operate the largest bakeries, canning plants and many other agencies for producing consumer goods...
...science all the resources that are at the latter's disposal, and there is nothing up to velocipedism that is not contributing to the service of the army. . . . In the use of the military bicycle as practised in England, [suppose that] a small body of cyclists, ten in number (two sections and a half-section), with officers and bugler, marching in usual order of half-sections-that is, by 'twos'-are attacked by cavalry. At the word of command, 'Halt! Prepare for cavalry! Form square!' each man dismounts. . . . The rifles are lifted out of their...
Starlings have long memories, sometimes tossing off the calls of summer birds in the dead of winter. Moreover, like humans, they occasionally go crazy over a popular bird tune number, most of the birds in a murmuration repeating it over & over until at last they get tired of it and discard it. Botanist Harry Ardell Allard of the U. S. Department of Agriculture has devotedly studied the mimicry of starlings, coaxing them to perform by placing nesting boxes outside his window. In Science last week he reported a prodigy. One starling, having imitated the long, low, monotonous call...
...publicly diagnosed Adolf Hitler (at long distance) as a paranoiac, have prophesied the Führer's mental collapse. Although he can no longer claim to speak with a patriotic objectivity, Dr. William Brown, director of Oxford's famed Institute of Experimental Psychology, last week upped the number of such diagnoses to 14: "Sir Nevile Henderson's final report on the actions of Herr Hitler confirms my conclusion . . . that he has every symptom of the paranoiac who is suffering from persecutory mania and whose brainstorms and megalomania will increase until his madness is so apparent that...