Word: professor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year Professor Wodzicki shipped two storks from their summer nests near Butyny, Poland, to Berlin, where they were loosed with magnets strapped to their heads. Idea was that the interference from this headgear would prevent the birds from taking their bearings by terrestrial magnetism. They got back to Butyny all right, despite the magnets. That was not deemed conclusive enough to rule out all possibility of magnetic guidance, however, so the professor sent six more Polish storks to London this spring, and they too wore magnetic hats when set free...
This week the Federation urged its 60 affiliated groups to campaign against the use in schools of textbooks which carry anti-advertising propaganda. With its message went a pamphlet attacking a text which the Federation considers particularly obnoxious: An Introduction to Problems of American Culture by Professor Harold Rugg of Columbia Teachers College...
...Federation's research director, Alfred T. Falk, reported that Professor Rugg's book is used by 4,200 school systems which teach an estimated 3,000,000 of the 7,000,000 U. S. high-school students. Mr. Falk found it full of "quaint economic theories." He was especially aroused by its chapter on advertising...
...week sweated for three days to pick the winner. Not only architecturally but politically popular, it was a design submitted by debt-paying Finland's clearheaded, apple-cheeked Eliel Saarinen, his broad-shouldered, brilliant son, Eero, and his son-in-law, Robert Swanson, all of Cranbrook Academy, Michigan. Professor Hudnut called the prize-($7,500)-winning design "well organized, logical and reasonable . . . yet with classical feeling...
...Johannesburg, South Africa, Professor Raymond Dart of the University of the Witwatersrand made a startling report: From the jungle where he had been reared by baboons, white policemen rescued a 12-year-old Negro. The boy could at first make only baboonlike noises. When he learned Afrikaans, he told goggle-eyed Professor Dart': "My food consisted mainly of crickets, ostrich eggs, prickly pears, green mealies and wild honey. . . . While with the baboons I walked on all fours and slept in the bush entirely naked...