Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dabbling in Pascal* the other day, I ran across a few lines that recalled strikingly a paragraph you published under SCIENCE some nine months ago: "But to exhibit to him another wonder quite as amazing, let him examine the most minute things he knows. . . . Dividing these again, let him exhaust his power of forming such conceptions, and then let us consider the last, the least object at which he can arrive. Perhaps he will think that it is the limit of littleness in nature. But I will show him a new abyss. I will paint for him not only...
...prove the rule in the case of Tell Berna, which provides conclusive proof that speed can be obtained by an athlete with little more than persistency. Berna was an Ithaca High School boy. He first reported for track in his senior year. He was one of the also rans on his school team. It was not until his senior year that he developed anything like a decent stride. Then he ran the fastest two miles ever credited to an American collegian. Furthermore, in the race in which he set the present collegiate record of 9.17 4-5, he ran five...
Your April 26 number [TIME, April 26, p. 9] razzes me amiably for attributed idiotic remarks about the U. S. Government. The misquotation started in the properly esteemed Baltimore Sun, and was the first paragraph of a modest and orthodox exhortation to civic duties, which as actually spoken ran thus: "Democratic representative government, such as we have in the U. S., is the most inefficient type of government in the world"; (re executive) "our forefathers, dreading Star Chamber methods, created an executive with too little power and too short a term of office to oppress the people"?100% grammar...
Continuing their heavy hitting activities and aided by ragged fielding in the inner defense of the visiting team, the Freshman ball tossers ran their season record of straight victories to six, with a 12 to 7 win over. Deerfield Academy on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. Malloy took up the pitching duties, while Ketchum rested after turning back the Brown sluggers last Tuesday, and he kept the situation well in hand with the exception of the sixth and last innings when the school boys bunched seven of their eight hits to score seven markers. The Crimson moundman retired eight...
...18th and early 19th centuries the so-called "colleges" merely dormitories, with the exception of Harvard Hall, which contained the one college commons, kitchen, buttery, and library. Even the aborigines, in the short-lived "Indian Colledge," ate in the commons, which perhaps explains why all but one died or ran away before graduation. That and all the other "colleges" were in law and fact, simply buildings of Harvard College. Very truly yours, S. E. Morison...