Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These men are only the nucleus of an exceptionally well-rounded aggregation. Fernald will get much competition this year from Don Donahue in the hurdles, and both Bill Laverack and Roger Schafer have shown considerable stuff...
...Operator Scruggs kept trying at odd times to raise Mrs. Hall or DeGhett. Last week as the ship lay in Hoboken, Scruggs caught De Ghett's ear. Pitcairn had told DeGhetl about the gifts. Here they were at last Scruggs advised him to hurry over and get "the stuff." "We're sailing tomorrow," he said, "and you ought to get it tonight. I'll leave it with the fellow at the head of the pier. . . . Try to get here about...
...Hart over-sentimentalize their theme. Canny showmen, they know that if, as Dr. Johnson said, patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is also one of the first salvations of a box office; that mother love and dying for one's country are not only the stuff of great art but also the surefire cliches of popular entertainment; that a cavalcade of the past-Bryan and T. R., the Wright Brothers and Lindbergh, hobble skirts and high-buttoned shoes-is a perfect ace-in-the-hole...
Blond, 39, Balkan-bearded, poker-faced, enthusiastic. Whit Burnett is a hypochondriac ex-newspaperman, formerly of Salt Lake City, Vienna and Majorca, now solidly repatriated and a leading godsend to U. S. short story writers whose stuff he publishes when all others refuse. He is also one of the few people who seem to be as fascinated by writers' doings as some are by the orbits of movie stars...
...Riddle's great contribution to biology is the recognition and analysis of the major pituitary hormone prolactin, discovered in 1932. This substance is the stuff that makes mothers motherly. In Richmond last week Dr. Riddle and two of his ablest co-workers-Robert Wesley Bates, 34, and James Plummer Schooley, 34-summarized their work on prolactin. Dr. Riddle is also, more than any other U. S. biologist, a crusader for the propagation of biologic truth among plain people, and at a dinner for biologists he steamed them up on the opportunities and obligations of biology teachers...