Word: originated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scene of ivy, hay, gowns, and confetti to Eliot and Lowell Houses, where there will be supper and dancing before the Instrumental and Glee Clubs' concert later in the evening. In dispensing with the services of a band, the committee has wisely departed from a tradition which had its origin when such music was the only entertainment available. For the first time the Instrumental Clubs will have a part in the program; it is to be hoped they will vindicate the committee's belief that the activities should be representative of the undergraduates. The Tree Oration, with the Police Gazette...
...Whitney may well have been surprised, upon reaching Washington last week, to learn the origin of his hurry call. Senator Walcott of Connecticut had, it seemed, received a telegram from no less a personage than Publicist George Barr Baker, faithful friend and volunteer adviser of President Hoover, disclosing the imminence of a "billion-dollar bear raid." The Senate Committee on Banking & Currency, on which Senator Walcott, once a Wall Streeter himself (Bonbright & Co.), is the Administration's spokesman, wanted Mr. Whitney to get up a complete list of persons on the short side of the market, wanted to quiz...
...meteorites, the fall of which in 1868 has been well observed, he gives a preliminary value of 500 million years, which is probably a minimum value because of possible loss of helium in space and in our museums for over 60 years. The Pultusk meteorite was certainly of interstellar origin, and judging from preliminary results of the Arizona meteor expedition, we may expect that at least several of the iron meteorites investigated by Paneth also do not belong to the solar system...
Statistics of the distribution of distances and relative magnitudes in double stars indicate that since their origin the masses of the stars could not decrease appreciably, and that the drop in luminosity of an average star of the dwarf branch cannot exceed half a magnitude since its origin, instead of the expected six magnitudes or more, and the probable value of the drop in luminosity is zero...
...Chickasaws-believed to be of Toltec origin-possessed an enviable culture when they were discovered by LaSalle and De Soto in their comfortable towns in Mississippi. We have no record to show that they were ever savages. When the white man brought his own conception of education to them, they took him seriously and practised his teachings even more assiduously than did the white settlers...