Word: peeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes following one such denial in a train I chanced to throw away a stale piece of my private supply of bread. Like a shot a peasant dived to the floor, grabbed the crust and devoured it. The same performance was repeated later with an orange peel. Even transport and G. P. U. officers warned me against traveling over the countryside at night because of the numbers of starving, desperate men. . . . A foreign expert who returned from Kazakstan told me that 1,000,000 of the 5,000,000 of inhabitants there have died of hunger...
...airship. Declaiming "I christen thee Macon!", she yanked the cord. Two hatches in the underside of the Macon's snout flopped open, spilling out 48 alarmed pigeons which flapped excitedly about the dock. Thirty-four of the birds then streaked through the aperture of the great orange-peel doors. Outside, two of them (Miss Macon & Miss Georgia) detached themselves from the rest, bent a course for Macon 500 mi. away. The others, veterans of the christening of the Akron in 1931, had to flutter only three miles to the coops of Tire Builder Frank Eisentraut on the north side...
...discovered it last year (TIME, March 7, 1932), has been considered an electrically inert combination of proton and electron. Two pictures of the combination have developed: 1) the heavy proton and the light electron bound together much like a dumbbell; 2) the electron hugging the proton like an onion peel. Such combinations should knock protons in certain definite directions. With a camera he invented, Yale's Franz N. D. Kurie showed that the behavior of protons recoiling from neutrons did not follow the calculated patterns. Only deduction tenable was that the neutron is an elementary, indivisible particle of matter...
...took a head goes on a strict diet for at least six months. He may eat no flesh of fierce animals, may never go hunting alone, must exculpate himself by sending a formal payment to the widow or a near relative of his victim. Then the head catcher may peel his trophy, artfully shrink the empty skin, display the head as proof of his prowess...
Theses that have been published in the past are "Poetical Intexication", by W. N. Bates '30, "Shakespeare and the Ireland Forgeries", by Derk Bodde '30, "The Respectability of Mr. Bernard Shaw" by H. A. Brinser '31, and "The Creed of a Victorian Pagan", by Robert Peel '31. Publication of honors theses is made possible by a grant from the visiting committee of the Board of Overseers...