Word: spans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...double span of football life has been the portion of E. W. Garbisch, Captain-elect of the Army team for 1924. Seven years ago Garbisch was awarded his university insignia at Washington and Jefferson. Entering West Point in 1921, he was enabled to continue his career owing to the nonexistence of the regular intercollegiate football restrictions...
Admitting that what Laertius wrote of Socrates--"He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance"--is a fair creed for a university, how is an undergraduate to achieve that "one only good" and drive forth evil ignorance in the brief span of seventeen or eighteen courses? He is likely either to become so bewildered as to gain practically no knowledge, or to specialize so narrowly as to drive forth ignorance only in one field. The innovation of the Science Symposiums, the second of which will be held tonight, is an undoubted...
Spring Cleaning. Critics observe that every dramatist is bound by the inevitable to write before his span of life is done a play in which a street walker walks into a drawing room unannounced. She usually walks out again leaving a group of idle rich attempting to reassemble the fragments of their devastated philosophy. Such is the current effort of Frederick Lonsdale, Englishman, author of Aren't We All. Inserting his tiny needle point of humor into this familiar situation, he has injected various stimulating charges of the unexpected. He sustains, therefore, the interest...
...three hours on 18 consecutive days, on some of which they smoked actual tobacco before the tests, and on others only the "control." The tests included pulse beat, motor control (absence of tremors), tapping of a telegraph key, muscular fatigue, cancellation of letters for alertness and accuracy, memory span for digits, speed and accuracy in performing addition, reaction time to short, familiar words displayed, and facility in learning to associate symbols and nonsense syllables. To summarize the results, the tobacco smoking tended "to retard and to disturb intellectual processes, but not in a marked degree." There was great variability between...
...presidential address before the homeopaths, by Dr. Claude A. Burrett, of Rochester, N. Y., contained the not original assertion that 20 years will be added to the average span of life in the next half century, and that the time is near when it will be "a crime" to die under 75 years of age from diabetes, Bright's disease, the cardiac vascular diseases and pos-sibly cancer. Dr. Leonard Williams, London specialist, recently made a similar statement, setting up 120 years as man's probable goal. It is true that the span of life in the United...