Word: specimen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roosevelt hopes to get a specimen of the Golden Monkey for the Peabody Museum. He has been able to get permission from the dean's office to take the trip since he has previously taken extra courses. Next year he plans to take a research course for which he can use any material gathered in China...
Jonathan Orestes Jones was a puny lad, but he was smart enough to get a job as usher at Roxy's Theatre, and do bodybuilding exercises on the side. Result: he became a Grade-A physical specimen, soon headed his own body-building establishment, General Manpower, Inc. But Orestes ran his racket with a difference: he rented out his customers-as strikebreakers, loggers, steelworkers, etc. These "units" of General Manpower not only drew high wages but owned a share in the business. Worked intensively but never long, they were guaranteed intermediate periods of "reconditioning" at the company...
Great is the delight of that diligent ichthyologist. Dr. William Beebe, when his deep-sea dredgings bring to light a perfect specimen of a rare fish. Diligent Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, chairman of the Temporary National Economic (Monopoly) Committee, last week had a similar sensation. Out of the depths of industry he brought wriggling to the surface as tight a little group of patent holders as his monopoly investigation could desire...
...specimen of rock under test is placed in a thick steel cylinder. An hydraulic confining pressure is applied through a liquid, or at very high pressures through lead. The highest confining pressure used are about 300,000 pounds per square inch. In addition, a direct, differential pressure is exerted on the specimen by a steel piston. Different pressure used attain more than 1.500,000 pounds per square inch...
...front now reigns that extraordinary specimen of balanced brain, brawn, and emotion known as the "normal youth"; there doctors solicitously question him in efforts to learn why he is. But in the rear of the Dunster Court, the Harvard Dramatic Society will pursue its unpublicized course, considerably out of the main current of undergraduate activities, but nevertheless serving a valuable purpose in the limited circle for which it is organized...