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Scientists were just about as much surprised as the Roxbury trustees. Among his colleagues, Professor Conant has always been regarded as one who would be faithful to science forever, a dashing and daring fellow rather than a plodder, a little unorthodox, perhaps, but wedded to chemistry. "Why on earth--?" asked his intimates. "I guess it's my sense of adventure," he replied. It is generally agreed he is a great loss to science. In research, his guesses at explanations and results were uncannily accurate. His students claimed, a bit resentfully, that he had an intuitive flair for chemistry, as some...
Sherwood Anderson never wrote a good novel, but he has written some first-rate short stories. His bumbling, fumbling, earnest-zany style wanders all over the place when it comes to telling a long narrative: confined to briefer limits it is often a powerful plodder. Though none of the 16 stories in Death in the Woods is the equal of his justly famed "I'm a Fool," three of them are well up to Anderson standard; one ("The Fight") is not only good but (what is even rarer for Author Anderson) funny...
...over third-rate Mexico at New Orleans. Gangling, nerveless Ellsworth Vines, U. S. national champion and leading candidate for phenomenon, was still short of his top form. He seemed absentminded, possibly because of his planned marriage in June to Verle Low of California. Texan Wilmer Allison, a plodder, showed a few moments of brilliant tennis. The supposedly invincible doubles team of Allison & John Van Ryn needed four sets to win. This team will play Australia next; then, if victorious, the winner of the European zone finals; then, possibly, France (July 29-31) at the Stade Roland Garros in Auteuil. Notable...
Impartial House observers rate him thus: a steady-going unimaginative partisan plodder, thoroughly conservative in his fiscal policies...
...Tipperary Tim was being led to the paddock, English folk crowded to pat him. They liked the feel of the hot lather on his flanks. They were glad that he had licked the U. S. invader, Billy Barton. Tipperary Tim was a dull horse, a plodder; but he had a nice name that would go down with powerful Poethlyn who won the Grand National in 1918 and 1919 and with nimble Jack Horner, U. S. horse who won in 1926. Hardly anybody noticed two other horses being led to the paddock. They were not feeling well. One of them...