Word: spoil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is nothing that Biologist Conklin wants less than to spoil the celebration. But as a scholar and scientist he is an uncompromising iconoclast. So he thinks it only fair to make the point that the cell theory was set afoot not in 1839 but during the previous 170 years, not by Herren Schleiden and Schwann but by a number of men almost nobody knows...
Emerson's best letters were written to his family on his lecture tours. They considerably spoil the conventional picture of New England's Transcendentalist-in-chief as shy, frail and retiring. Because Emerson was surrounded by people like volcanic bluestocking Margaret Fuller, semi-insane Greek Scholar Jones Very, zany Poet Ellery Channing and "this Gautama" Bronson Alcott, myth has made him one of them. His letters show he never wholly...
...tough. Ordinarily such hanging (to obtain a few very choice steaks) requires four to eight weeks under expensive cold-storage conditions. In the Mellon-Kroger process it is done in a few days at a temperature of 60°, a relative humidity of 90%. Molds and bacteria, which would spoil such warm, damp meat if left to themselves, are put out of action by ultraviolet light from a Westinghouse lamp...
...Foxes (by Lillian Hellman; produced by Herman Shumlin) is the season's most tense and biting drama-as tense and biting as was Playwright Hellman's The Children's Hour. From the Song of Solomon comes the title: "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines. . . ." Study of a rapacious Southern family on the make at the turn of the century, The Little Foxes catches the Hubbards-who by sharp bargaining and hard ways have achieved small-town prosperity-on the point of becoming heel-grinding, big-time industrialists...
...Macaulay's genius was considerably overrated. His phenomenal, encyclopedic memory was too often a substitute for thinking. His wit borrowed its main punch from his universal spleen and political bias. (Said Macaulay, who loved only his sisters: "There are not ten people in the world whose deaths would spoil my dinner.") Most of the writers and poets he demolished-Byron, Shelley, Keats, Thackeray, Gibbon,. Wordsworth, Tom Paine, Herman Melville, to name only a few- have long survived him. And his History, while still exciting for its colorful narrative, is not noted for its accuracy...