Word: specimen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Feodor Chaliapin, famed basso profundo of the Metropolitan Opera Company, being entertained by the Berlin Actors' Club, was asked to amuse his hosts with a specimen of song. He arose but instead of singing, delivered a brief address on his life. "Sing, sing!" shouted the bad actors. Chaliapin drew a charcoal cartoon of himself which amused his audience but did not stop their demands for song. Chaliapin rose a third time, went through the motions of an aria, puffing his chest, swinging his arms, opening and shutting his mouth like a large Russian goldfish, without making a sound. After...
From Pittsburgh there was shipped recently to Bloemfontein, South Africa, the second of the three new mountings for telescopes at Harvard's new southern-hemisphere station on the Modder River in the Orange Free State. The mounting just completed is a fine specimen of the telescope maker's art. It is provided for the 24-inch Bruce photographic doublet which for thirty years has been in operation, with a rather inferior mounting, at the former Harvard station in Arequipa, Peru. The 24-inch Bruce has long been the Observatory's most powerful tool for studying southern stars and nebulae...
...specimen...
...flay it for having no imagination beyond its mechanistic world, and yet he, concocter, flayer, is a victim of the same mechanism. Crammed with a thousand facts, equipped with test tube and tuning fork, Lewis's laboratory does not imagine the chemical of human kindness. The defenseless specimen wallows blandly in 100% Americanism, while the experimenter stands off and sneers, smacking his lips, rubbing his hands, gloating wickedly...
...Museum of Comparative Zoology has just finished mounting the skeleton of a new Plesiosaur from the Cretaceous deposits of Kansas which, within a few days, will be placed on exhibition. The mounting of this specimen completes the group of these large marine reptiles which occupy the entire west wall of the Mesozoic room. The other specimens all come from England and Germany...