Word: pea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have truly portrayed the life a sailor leads. Conrad has written of the romance and horrors of the sea, but in "The Wayward Man," one learns of the more truthful elements. In this story, Mr. Ervine has vividly painted the dirty forecastle of a square-rigger, the rotten pea soup and greasy pork, and the honors of serving under a "Blue Nose," who tied a boy to the mizzen fife for the whole of the time his ship was beating round the Horn. And not only at sea, but on land is the sailor's life vividly described...
...theory held by doctors is that infectious diseases, caught usually in the springtime, affect the pituitary gland. This is an endocrine gland the size of a big pea, located underneath the cerebrum and on about a line with the bridge of the nose. Formerly medicos supposed that it secreted the mucus of the nose. (In Latin pituita means phlegm.) Actually it controls the growth of the bones of body?those of the arms and legs. When it is pathologically oversize, it makes giants of the diseased persons; when undersize it dwarfs them. Irritated temporarily by springtime disease, it, in good...
...Zionist Experimental Agricultural Station and Oskar Theodor of the University's microbiological institute. They had spent July in the Sinai Desert; had found, as had the old marching Israelites, the white pellets of manna on the ground under tamarisk shrubs, varying in size from a pinhead to a pea. They looked closer and saw the little pills forming as yellow, sulphur-like drops on the tamarisk twigs. Other scientists, before, had noted that phenomenon and had decided that the drops oozed from tiny punctures in the bark, made by plant lice. The Hebrew University men, closer observers...
...classmates call him "Butch." He owns a "secondhand navy pea-jacket, evidently purchased with due regard for Coolidge economy." He has a "perfect schoolgirl complexion," plus an "air of perfect boredom." He keeps a scrapbook of newspaper clippings in which his name is mentioned. He receives, from schoolgirls throughout the U. S., admiring letters. So alleged the Amherst Junior Year Book of John Coolidge. The President's son, Amherst College Junior, is himself a member of the Junior Year Book editorial board...
...extensive program for the year has been mapped out by the officers of the Menorah Society, which will open its season's activities with a reception in Pea-body Hall, Phillips Brooks House, at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. Professor G. H. Chase '96, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will give a brief address on behalf of the University, and Professor David Gordon Lyon '01 Honorary Curator of the Semetic Museum, will speak on "President Eliot--an Appreciation." All members of the University are welcome...