Word: ovoid
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...menial chores which society tries to impose" upon her. Come, come, now, surely so many cannot be so saturated with careerist propaganda. Do most Radcliffe students really scorn husband and hearth? I shall not resort to the statistics on Harvard-Radcliffe marriages. Surely we, the paragons of the cranially ovoid female do not deny the effects of home environment. Back in the boondocks of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Brooklyn it is considered impolite to sneer at mommy's handiwork. We who hail from these parts of the frontier learned early on that we would do well to emulate...
...guidance" was his touchstone-a phrase so often on his lips that it seemed to many that he had invented the idea. God guided Frank Buchman to seek out the company of the rich and famous-an improbable prophet, ovoid and owlish, with a piping voice and a slangy sweetness-and-light that in the past four decades won him an earnest following. At first these followers were known as Oxford Groupers or Buchmanites, but in 1938. as the nations of the world rearmed for war. Dr. Buchman was inspired to christen his movement Moral Re-Armament. Stumping the world...
Since they had to do without human skulls, the researchers, led by Edward R. Dye, started out with hens' eggs-which, Dye explained, are roughly equivalent, for experimental purposes. Both are about the same shape (ovoid), and both consist of a rigid, fragile shell containing gelatinous material. Eggs will break when dropped four inches on a hard surface, skulls about four feet. But skulls and eggs crack about the same...
...past before the advent of adequate treatment. That is purpura [purplish hemorrhage of blood into the skin]. We know that purpura occurs as a complication of malaria, that it is usually distributed symmetrically, that its usual location is on the hands and feet, and that it appears as ovoid, bluish, at times slightly elevated spots...
...literally live with footballs in the hope that the costly fumbles that marred the "Gamecocks" contest with Clemson last week may not occur again. His ball carriers are carrying the ball to class, to meals, and to bed this week, so that they may become thoroughly familiar with its ovoid shape...