Word: skeltering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dollars. This discovery overwhelms the different members of the family. Impelled by greed they catch themselves in ugly conspiracies that would have ordinarily shocked them. The central character is Abby, the Haggett's maid of all work, who keeps her perspective as well as her rights in the helter skelter scramble to get hold of the paintings...
...Fletcher, committee chairman, heard what had happened, he denounced it as a ''damned outrage," ordered the Morgan-midget films suppressed, telegraphed newspapers not to use them. When few obeyed, he barred cameramen from the committee room. The week prior Senator Glass, denouncing the committee's helter-skelter procedure, had declared: "We're having a circus here and the only things lacking are peanuts and colored lemonade." When told of Lya Graf, the peppery little Virginian sniffed a contemptuous "I-told...
This brings into being a new form of student cooperation. It organizes the system of exchanging used books among the students, obviating the difficulties of the current helter-skelter methods of exchange. Whereas formerly the student had to go running wildly about to sell his books to other students, or sell them to second hand dealers for very little, he now has an organization which will get him a fair price for his books in a systematic manner...
...deans, while they are effective in handling the cases of academic routine, and in issuing threats against offenders, are of little or no service in advising undergraduates; this portion of their task should be turned over to a recognized office instead of being handled, as at present, in helter-skelter fashion. The Adviser in Religion, under another name, with a larger field of action, and no longer doing the work of other men, nor having his work done by them, would be a decided benefit to Harvard: in view of the fact that the present incumbent has done such excellent...
When a piece of iron or other substance is magnetized, the molecules yank one way. When the substance is demagnetized the molecules jerk helter-skelter. The magnetic yanking causes molecular friction and produces an appreciable amount of heat which Professor Wrilliam F. Giauque, University of California chemist, used last week to reach the lowest degree of cold yet attained...