Word: stationer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anyone who has had any time to spend at a railroad station has found himself sooner or later on the penny scales comparing his weight and height at sixteen or twelve with the standard given. When the comparison does not turn out to his satisfaction he decides that the average given cannot be accurate, and in the past his conclusion has been correct. It is with the aim of determining these standards more exactly that the Graduate School of Education has undertaken in Dean Holmes' words a "research enterprise of major importance...
...lowing herds which have gladdened the eye of homesick Greek mountaineers in Cambridge from time immemorial, have come to be accepted as part of the setting like the green sacks of the first year Law men, or the chimneys of the power station which form the uprights of a possible H. But on Tuesday evening the herds cut loose and in the stampede for safety, which followed there was a charge on the Round-house without parallel...
...sharp earthquake shock was registered yesterday afternoon at the University Seismographic Station at 11 minutes 36 seconds past 4 o'clock. It was calculated that the earthquake took place about 2770 miles from Cambridge at three minutes 44 seconds past 4 o'clock. The direction was not determined...
...Memphis Station. Tennessee...
...very old literary convention when he makes his characters reveal in the first person all the secrets, even the villainous secrets of their souls. His characters take after Chaucer's Pardoner. The dramatic contrast in "Pygmalion" between Dolittle and his daughter are remarkable. Both are unexpectedly raised to a station of "middle-class morality", but the one, Alfred Dolittle, "ruined" and "intimidated" by the change, which introduces to him fifty unsuspected relatives, who "touch" him where he touched others before, in the pocket book, sinks into despair at the loss of his freedom and the good old happy days...