Word: raymonds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young editors' parents rejoiced to read a tabulation of part of a survey being conducted by Instructor Raymond D. Lawrence of the University of Oregon School of Journalism. He showed that of 25-odd thousand people who had been considered sufficiently eminent for inclusion in the 1924 Who's Who, 2,350 (or one-eleventh of the whole number) had come to fame and stayed there through the pursuit of journalism...
MISSIONARIES are vastly misundstood--even by themselves. So when Raymond Weaver from his cloistered Morningside attempts to place the spark of real life in the bodies of some soul savers at Kurodani in the Island Empire, one feels an interest akin to that aroused by a study of any community of gods or devils, not yet quite understood by the world at large...
...Raymond Weaver's first novel is decidely a success. He has occasionally let satire better truth; he has even let it better niceness. But he has also illuminated the lives of the dwellers in a strange land, the devotees of a strange religion, and done so with precision and tact. That celibacy does not always prelude sanity; that religion does not necessarily preface morality are obvious facts. Yet a book like "Black Valley...
...BIOLOGY OF POPULATION GROWTH, Raymond Pearl, Knopf ($3.50). Dr. Pearl, Director of the Institute of Biological Research at Johns Hopkins, long famous in scientific circles for his studies of how living things grow, has here produced a book which is intelligible to the layman yet includes enough scientific and mathematical data to be significant to scientists. He describes briefly experiments which show that a white rat, a pumpkin, the new tail of a tadpole (when the first tail is cut off), a colony of yeast cells in a sugar solution, a colony of fruit flies in a milk bottle, grow...
Hands Up. Famous players nave taken their newest comedian and wound him round with a Civil War burlesque. The action is somewhat mischievously placed in Utah, and Brigham Young and most of his wives are added for eccentric complication. The comedian is Raymond Griffith and the play has a double happy-ending. Thanks to the proximity of Salt Lake City, the hero is permitted to marry both his sweethearts...