Word: suggested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Presumably with the body of Harvard men, I today received my applications for this fall's football games' tickets. From the printed matter enclosed with the applications, I learned for the first time that season tickets have been abolished. I suggest that you might well take editorial notice of this abolition, for it seems to me that it is the ultimate step in the commercialization of Harvard athletics...
...campaign." McAdoo did this-but not William Gibbs, who had not yet attached his star or his heart to the Wilson regime. Wilson's pre-convention and campaign manager was William McAdoo, a Princeton graduate, resident of New Jersey and New York lawyer, quite a different person. I suggest that the young editor who wrote this sketch read up his political history and give us the facts on this other McAdoo. SELDEN W. TYLER...
...gods did. Ever since the Hopi have honored snakes to appease gods who might remember their intolerance. Why rain follows the Snake Dance and why the Hopi are not fatally bitten by the snakes are questions many a white man has tried to answer. To the first question they suggest that old Hopi medicine men are expert meteorologists after their fashion. They wait until rain is due, schedule the dance for that day. (The dance is seldom held the same day in successive years.) But the medicine men must be able to forecast rain at least nine days in advance...
...cosmic rays of their arrival from some source off Earth. It does not show what that source is-whether the rays originate from the destruction of matter in the stars (Jeans theory) or from creation of matter in the void between stars (Millikan theory). Certain aspects of cosmic rays suggest that they may be the newly recognized neutrons. Or they may be electrons drifting down from the heavily ionized, pulsating casing called the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer which at a distance of 100 mi. or so encloses Earth as a shell encloses its yolk. Against that yielding, yet fluctuating casing radio...
Shortly after he lost his fortune in the Black Friday panic brought on by Jay Gould's gold corner in 1869, the late Berlin-born Albert Frank, then a banker, happened to suggest to a steamship line that it advertise its transatlantic service. Because the advertising drew passengers, he suggested to his banker friends that they advertise their services, helped them write their copy. Because the copy brought customers, Albert Frank founded in 1872, one of the first financial advertising agencies in Wall Street. Successfully fighting the prejudice of the times against advertising by bankers & brokers (it was thought...