Word: peering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brains. As proud as he might be of his University, which after 300 years has no U. S. peer, many a Harvardman last week was prouder of the University's new President. Son of a humble Dorchester photo-engraver. James Bryant Conant by his gracious and wise bearing distinguished himself last week in the midst of a large body of social aristocrats, ably established his membership in the aristocracy of brains. Brains are indeed the main interest of Harvard's 23rd President. Harvard has more money ($128,000,000) than any other university in the world ever...
...Patient Morgan, Dr. Denny and party had traveled through Boston and Manhattan and were approaching the Mill Neck, L. I. station about four miles from the Morgan estate at Glen Cove. Mr. Morgan was looking out the window when his train rolled to a halt. Gawpers rushed up to peer in at him. Mr. Morgan pulled down the shade...
...these lordly libels Mr. Duff Cooper did not trouble to bring suit. Socialist Ponsonby, being a peer, could not carry his attack into the House of Commons but it was carried by Socialist Emanuel Shinwell, the brawling M. P. who in Britain's last General Election won from James Ramsay MacDonald the former Prime Minister's seat. "Should not His Majesty's Secretary of State for War quit being a bogeyman?" cried Laborite Shinwell...
...during life, the first so honored alone. In 1926 Calvin Coolidge shared a half dollar with George Washington to mark the sesquicentennial of the Declaration of Independence Picking a summer house at Saranac Lake, N. Y., Scientist Albert Einstein remarked that he wanted it to escape curiosity seekers who "peer into my windows at Princeton...
...Jackson, while not the first man to peer down the trachea and esophagus, perfected the circus sword-swallower's technique of throwing back the head so far that mouth, throat and windpipe or gullet form a straight channel through which a straight metal tube can be slipped. The tube which penetrates the windpipe to the lungs is called a bronchoscope. A slightly larger metal tube which goes into the gullet is Dr. Jackson's esophagoscope. At the tip of esophagoscope and bronchoscope is a small electric light by whose illumination the bronchoscopist can see any foreign body...