Word: nut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he was "homesick for the old place." In a brighter mood, he pounded his small paunch. "Look at this waistline," he cried. "Know how I shaved off four inches this summer? Every day I went out to my pecan orchard and stooped over 125 times, picking up one nut each time. Say, that's great exercise...
...between modern science and modern life would be made of newspapers. Of the contemporary interpreters of science, the most lucid are Russell, Haldane and John William Navin Sullivan. Himself more of a plain man than a scientist, Interpreter Sullivan puts his meaty subject in a nutshell, then cracks the nut. In no uncertain terms, Author Sullivan states the findings, seekings, final uncertainty of modern science. From Pythagoras to Einstein he traces its development: from philosophy through magic and materialism to its present indeterminate flux. Modern scientists, says Sullivan, are really estheticians in disguise. Science's chief fascination to them...
Number 42--Anthony Morandos '35, center, pivot of the Purple line, a tough nut to crack...
...host then asks the footman to tell Meadows to bring the cocktails in. Meadows, in the dark livery of a butler, appears instantly. Meadows is Rowlands. He sets the drinks down, whips off three and departs. Mr. Cook scarcely notices. "Anybody who thinks Joe's screwy is a nut," an old friend says...
...Edward L. Bernays. It was bustling "Eddie" Bernays who got the Edison Mazda lamp put on a special postage stamp for the 50th anniversary of the electric light. Also he conceived the soap-sculpture fad for Procter & Gamble; and promoted "big breakfast" propaganda to boost bacon for Beech-Nut Packing Co. But no competitor can approach Ivy Lee in wealth and social stature. His friends are Rockefellers, Mackays, Guggenheims, John William Davis, the late Senator Dwight Morrow. His daughter Alice was presented at Court. He lives magnificently in swank East 66th Street...