Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good start in one of the most important adventures of your life. Also, as the year moves on, we hope that you will come to us freely about your various problems, needs, and plans. A dean's office, I fear, is often pictured as a kind of "Star chamber" where long hours are spent in devising various forms of disciplinary action ranging all the way from admonition to probation and expulsion. This is not, and never has been, a true picture of the situation at Harvard, nor at any other college worthy of the name. We are rather busy...
...College as known to perfect strangers. You see him bursting into sorority houses, hornswoggling the Frosh out of his allowance, necking the co-eds on the steps of the lecture hall. All the joy has fled the campus of dear old Tait, according to the plot, because the star halfback, Tom Marlowe (John Price Jones), has flunked his astronomy just before the opening chorus, two days prior to the intercollegiate crisis with Colton. The heroine, Connie Lane (Mary Law-lor), tutors him for a make-up examination, which he passes?be-cause the professor shows college spirit. One minute...
...Oliver. How some acquired characteristics opposite to others, he could not say, but inferred that there were opposites, the positive and negative particles of that form of energy called electricity. Their high speed made mutual penetration difficult. Instead of destroying one another they agglomerated in clusters (atoms, molecules) masses (star dust, worlds, material universes...
...Werner Kohlhoerster of Germany, cosmic ray specialist who last year announced from an observation pit in the Alps that he thought the rays emanated, at present, chiefly from the northeastern heavens, where the constellations Orion, Hercules and Andromeda are giving off enormous quantities of energy from spiral (star-forming) nebulae (TIME...
...Brasses indicate the farewell hammering in mechanics. Gentler instruments soothingly interpret the pouring of oil. Then the plane soars to the screech of a fire engine siren. Storm, sleet ... a lyrical movement as the hero sights the mainland of Europe. Finally, triumphant orchestration. Herein ring fragments of "Dixie," "The Star-Spangled Banner," "Marseillaise," "Yankee Doodle...