Word: pigeonly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most scientists use jawbreaking words for relatively simple things. A biologist says he has "hypophysectomized" a pigeon when he has removed its pituitary* gland; a psychologist speaks of "tactual-kinesthetic perception" when a blindfolded person indicates a point on his skin which has been stimulated. The opposite is true in mathematics, where ordinary words have fearfully complex meanings-e.g., "fields," "groups," "families," "spaces," "rings," "limits," "domains," "functions." In mathematics, a "simple curve" is a closed curve, no matter how elaborate, which does not cross itself-that is, which has one inside and one outside (see cut). An ordinary figure...
...Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. took one look at the markets (where Ward com mon closed the week at 37!) and pigeon holed plans to sell a $31,000,000 issue of common' stock, at $40 a share...
...Mule Team (M.G.M.) contains, in addition to the 20 mules, two Beerys-Wallace and Noah Jr. Wallace is no surprise as a sly, slobbering, guzzling mule skinner employed by a borax company to haul its product out of Death Valley. Leo Carrillo is a big surprise as a pigeon-toed Indian. Biggest surprise of all is Marjorie Rambeau trying to act like a saloonkeeper...
WASHINGTON - President Roosevelt tonight placed the support of his administration behind the House drive to revive the Batch "Clean Politics" bill. Indirectly rebuking the House Judiciary Committee for pigeon-holing the measure. Mr. Roosevelt said he hopes that the bill will be brought to the floor of the House, acted upon and passed
...limbo-like atmosphere. In The Labyrinthine Ways he finds an almost ideal character for his talents: the last fugitive priest in a hypothetical Red-ruled Mexico. Small, shabby, bad-toothed, alternately disguised as tramp or peon, he cunningly eludes a fanatic young police lieutenant, ditches a burrlike stool pigeon, at last walks deliberately into a trap when he is summoned to hear the confession of a dying gringo bandit...