Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there were one point on which I should quibble, it would be the club system, but I regard it as too unimportant to matter. The Harvard club system is a strange creature. Evolution put the dinornis and the plesiosaur down and piled mountains above them. This other freak with gold feet may yet join them in innocuous extinction. But whether or not, the great mass of Harvard men will come and go and scarcely heed. Harvard's democracy is untrammeled, but it flourished anywhere at Harvard but in a clubroom...
Coach Fisher expressed his satisfaction in regard to the men's progress and corroborated the general approval of Major Moore's training novelty...
...regard this undertaking," he declared, "as one of exceeding importance in the field of science. It is a genuine attempt to investigate the psychic field. It will be carried out with a strictly scientific attitude. It will possess every possible advantage to assist research. And if it fails, I predict that an end will be made of scientific investigation for many years to come...
...Vote. Senators Couzens and Ferris (Michigan) voted against confirmation, both testifying high personal regard for Mr. Warren, but saying they could not vote for him. (Mr. Warren is not popular with the Republican organization in his native Michigan.) Senator after Senator voted. The Progressive and Insurgent Republicans, without exception, voted against confirmation. So did Hiram Johnson, administration opponent. So did all the Democrats except one, Lee S. Overman of North Carolina, who expressed the opinion that the President should be given the opportunity of choosing his own official family. The vote was obviously close. Republican leaders became uneasy...
Muscle Shoals (as explained in TIME, Dec. 29, SCIENCE) was so named because at that point is found the greatest collection of fresh water mussels or Naiades (80 species and 29 genera) anywhere in the world. In regard to the spelling, Gerard H. Matthes of Manhattan, in a recent letter to Science, weekly organ of the National Association for the Advancement of Science, pointed out that in writings of half a century ago and earlier, it was stated that the name was given because of the "muscle shells" (sic) found there. "Muscle" seems to have been the original form...