Word: strangest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strangest of Mr. Teale's beasts: the aphid (plant louse), which reproduces by parthenogenesis (without mating), gives birth to males only in autumn, is so prolific that if all descendants of one aphid could possibly survive throughout a summer, their mass weight would be 822,000,000 tons. Most intelligent insect: the ant, though the wasp and bee run it a close second. Most surprising insect: the dragon fly, which is so fond of live meat it will even eat parts of itself, starting at the tail and eating toward its mouth...
...sleep in classes. Well, what you said about hypnotism set me thinking, and I got a book about it, which was very interesting. But now, whenever I look hard at a professor, and try to think about what he's saying, he just looks back at me in the strangest way. He doesn't say anything and his mouth opens and shuts like a fish. Yesterday this lasted five minutes until somebody gave him a drink of water. What should I do? Trustingly, N. Cephalitis...
...Strangest feature of The Seven Who Fled is not its gutter transcendentalism but its combination of vivid physical descriptions and wild poetic fantasy. Reading in part like a travel book, it is at the same time peopled with characters who are all amateur philosophers as well as men of action, who expound their beliefs, analyze themselves and the contemporary world in ringing phrases as they commit murder, double-cross each other, go down racked with disease, vice, unspeakable spiritual torment. Readers may question the allegorical significance of Author Prokosch's tale, may feel that his situations are too farfetched...
...four-man teams from twelve clubs competing last week, strangest and best was that of the Chicago Lawn Bowling Club, all of whose members bore the name McArthur. Its skip, lean, 23-year-old Lachlan D. (for nothing) McArthur, created a sensation by his technique of swinging the bowl in a semicircle to warm up, following it anxiously down the green to encourage it by urgently waving his hands. Playing with his Uncles Duncan, Roger and James, young Bowler McArthur skipped Chicago Lawn successfully through the final against the Milwaukee Lawn Bowling Club...
...Behanan was a graduate student of psychology at Yale in 1931 when he won a Sterling Fellowship on which he returned to India to make a scientific study of one of his country's strangest cults. Under Swami Kuvalayananda, Dr. Behanan conscientiously underwent a year's novitiate in yoga. Already acquainted with the philosophy, he concentrated on yoga's principal calisthenics...