Word: stem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harlow should not be condemned without a hearing. Perhaps the mere recitation of his coaching career does not tell the correct story. Perhaps too Mr. Bingham will see fit to exert enough control over football to stem the criticism that he believes the due of an institution which fosters a program of "going out and getting them." In any event, the final opinion as to whether Harvard has really gone "big-time" cannot correctly be made until the new regime takes over the reins...
Standing 6 ft. 2 in. high, weighing 190 lb., he charged through the corn. Husking barehanded, with his hook strapped tight to his right hand, he grasped each ear off its stalk tight in his left hand, ripped away the husks with his right, snapped the ear from its stem. Bang-bang-bang went the hard husked ears of bright corn against the tall bangboard-about 40 per minute. Balko fell farther and farther behind in the race down the field, but his wagon box was filling faster. Drenched with sweat, he husked the corn on his own rows quicker...
...south of Scotland Light . . . SOS. SOS, Di-di-di-da-da-da-di-di-di. . . . Can't hold out much longer. . . ." Blind, almost knocked out by the bitter smoke. "Sparks" Rogers and Alagna stumbled out of the wireless room. By that time the Morro Castle was an inferno from stem to stern...
Antiquity of Man. No sane anthropologist asserts that man descended from an ape or monkey. The family tree of primates charted by Sir Arthur Keith shows New World monkeys branching off a common stem in the Eocene Age (2,000,000 years ago), Old World monkeys diverging later in the same period. In the Oligocene Age (1,200,000 years ago), the great upright primates reached a fork. One branch ends up with the gorillas, orangs and chimpanzees of today. The other continues steadily toward Homo sapiens...
...blood serum proteins of Old World monkeys are closer kin to the corresponding human proteins than to those of New World monkeys. Thus was Sir Arthur's tree upheld in outline, but the discovery seemed to indicate that the Old World monkey branch should be moved up the main stem, farther from the New World monkey divergence, closer to the human fork...