Word: polarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When two polar bears in Milwaukee's Washington Park Zoo ducked and drowned a small black bear last autumn (TIME, Nov. 7), the Zoo's Director Edmund Heller was indulgent. He compared the duckers to playful small boys, did not even feel it necessary to abandon his experiment of keeping various kinds of bears and wolves together in large open dens...
...last week the Milwaukee Zoo guards heard people yelling near the bear den. A big polar bear was wrestling with a little black bear, holding it under water for longer & longer stretches. After a while, with some honey, the guards got the polar bear to stop playing. By that time the little black bear was drowned...
...best sets of answers would win. First day the teams worked over such easy matters as how many times two integral calculi go into four differential calculi. They quit early to have tea, rest their minds, study. Next day-a hot day -they moiled over discontinuous functions, convergent series, polar coordinates, second derivations. The finished papers were turned over to Professor Dresden at Swarthmore College. He was to announce results in ten days. Coaches for both teams agreed that fewer than four men on each side had been able to complete ten problems. They thought that one of the problems...
...first part of the course is devoted to the derivation of many of the theorems of Euclidian geometry by analytical methods. Later one is introduced into the esoteric art of differentiation and integration of algebraic and trigonometric functions, and is taught the use of polar coordinates. Complicated as it may sound, the work is quite simple if the daily exercises are performed conscientiously, and if the ground is covered thoroughly by the instructor...
Weakly to reply to this by saying that there is no interest in debating is to state what is simply not the truth. Every year, there are from twenty-five to fifty of the incoming Freshmen who have distinguished themselves on preparatory school platforms. But the polar atmosphere of Harvard's Speaking and Debating Departments all too quickly chills this enthusiasm. The Sophomore year finds the fifty reduced to a paltry five or six, who with small heart and slight interest drag out a desultory three years of "Harvard College Debating...