Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earhart on her first trip across the Atlantic, was drunk, his brain subsequently proved to Toxicologist Gettler, when he killed himself and two passengers in a Long Island crash. Eben McBurney Byers. the Pittsburgh industrialist who died after prolonged drinking of radium water (TIME. April 11. 1932). "took the stuff," said Dr. Gettler. "for rejuvenation. He was a good man. He gave it to his friends. At first you feel fine. It bucks you up, for maybe six months. Then we get ready to put parts of you in a frame...
...France Michel Souris, in Japan Miki Kuchi, in Denmark Mikkel Mus and in Spain Miguel Ratonocito. Last week he became Art. In Manhattan's Kennedy Galleries art critics piously eyed a collection of original Mickey Mouse cartoons from the Walt Disney Studios in Hollywood. Wrote one, "Genius . . . profoundest stuff . . . drama of the eternal ego." Another noted "the integrity of the draftsmanship, the flair for effective massing of spaces and the never failing rhythmic pattern of the drawings." From Manhattan the cartoons will go to leading U. S. colleges and museums for exhibition under the auspices of the College...
...Warfare Service. Then he returned to Harvard and, because the university feared losing him to another college, Dr. Conant was made assistant professor six years after taking his A. B. In six years more he became a full professor. His most famed work has been in chlorophyll, the green stuff of life in plants. Last year Columbia University gave Dr. Conant its Chandler Medal, the American Chemical Society (New York section) its William H. Nichols Medal. Dr. Conant is rated a stern taskmaster -and admired for it-by his ablest students. Chemistry is his whole life...
...have been an invalid if they could have afforded it; pain made her sharp tongue sharper. Lois May's and Lize's dreams all turned towards the city. But Ed was a good farmer, and little John, from the time he could toddle, showed there was sound stuff in him. Prize of the Shaw family was Jen. Almost unbelievably calm, good-natured, efficiently hardworking, she had run the Shaw household ever since her mother's death. Idealized type of what a farm woman should be, Jen was as understanding as the next one, never bothered her head...
...editorials of the second issue of the Harvard Critic express the same apologetic point of view as those of the first. "We know that this is poor stuff, but then this is Harvard, academic, in different, intellectually moribund Harvard; what can you expect?" Once more the editors cry out for someone with something...