Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marks. "Engines for Airplanes"; March 3, Professor Grinnell Jones '08, "Explosives and Fertilizers from the air"; March 10, Professor G. W. Pierce '01, "Electric Oscillations and Radio Communication; with demonstrations"; March 17, Professor G. F. Swain, "The Development of Steel Structures"; March 24, Professor D. H. McLaughlin, "The World Search for Metallic Ores"; March 31. Professor G. M. Fair, "Supplying Half a Billion Gallons a Day of Drinking Water"; April 7, Professor A. E. Wells, "Floating Metals from their Ores"; April 14, Mr. H. M. Turner '06, Lecturer on Water Power Engineering. "Utilization of Water Power...
...curse of systematization is to embrace the modern world it could well start with devising a means whereby these former exams might be found in less than an hour's search and under circumstances less akin to a subway rush. As matters stand the end is not worth the energy expended and the lessons of the past remain securely hidden by their supreme disorder from the students of the present. Experience may be a great teacher but her wisdom fails when her schoolbooks remain veiled from seeking eyes...
...must first be a good deal of scuffling and grunting before all can be comfortably disposed on furniture, window sills and floor. Then cigarets are borrowed, matches found, pipes gurgled clean, and someone arranges the windows and door to prevent a draft but assure ventilation. Usually there is a search for a pair of eyeglasses, but as "Copey" keeps an innumerable quantity of these, variously ground for varying type-sizes and occasions, the search is brief and successful. A hush falls. Some one takes his last cough. "Copey" waits for another last cough and, if none comes begins to read...
...must first be a good deal of scuffling and grunting before all can be com- fortably disposed on furniture, windowsills and floor. Then cigarets are borrowed, matches found, pipes gurgled clean, and someone arranges the windows and door to prevent a draft but assure ventilation. Usually there is a search for a pair of eyeglasses, but as "Copey" keeps an innumerable quantity of these, variously ground for varying type-sizes and occasions, the search is brief and successful. A hush falls. Some one takes his last cough. "Copey" waits for another last cough and, if none comes, begins to read...
...very rapidly and its editors could congratulate themselves that, in gratifying a whim of the business department they had performed a typical World re-form for the city. More than ever was the World the self-styled "D'Artagnan of journalism," for it was that lusty Gascon who, in search of employment, picked quarrels to make friends...