Word: specimen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glyn, ablest living fabricator of Sunday-supplement fiction, made it all up and did a job which, in spite of its puerile aspects, has possibilities as entertainment. What makes Suck Men Are Dangerous silly is not the plot, acting or direction, but the awful dialog, written by Ernest Vajda. Specimen lines...
...would thus appear to be the largest meteorite known at present. The Greenland meteor brought back by Admiral Peary, and now reposing in the American Museum of Natural History, in New York, weighs 36 1-2 tons, considerably less than the Grootfontein specimen...
...fervor of almamatermania which drove the 200 young men of Harvard to demolish a subway car is even loss desirable. We have many times discussed the merits of the green cap, the St. Pat's parade, and the big rush: but we have never had quite so insane a specimen of sophomorism at Wisconsin as Harvard's expedition into school spirit...
...good cooking. During the War she worked on the problem of food substitutes. Her study sent her to old cook books. Collecting them became a hobby. Now she has 4,000, largest collection of its kind, which she is giving to the New York Academy of Medicine. Oldest specimen is a manuscript, written about 870 A.D., of Apicius De re Coquinaria (On Cookery), which collates some of the ancient recipes the Romans considered choice. Ancient cookery differed little from modern. Roast pork and apples was a Roman, dish, also duck and turnip. The Romans had no sugar, used honey. Honey...
Subject of many a session behind curtained windows: disconnected telephones. The dean in scored roundly by freshman and senior alike as an Iowa Yokel rudely out of his Iowa mud-puddle, as a discouraging specimen of what a little learning will do to cold-hoppers. They hope that thinking persons will not allow the Williams label to be pasted on the college...