Word: taming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Axel - Freda Lingstrom - Little, Brown ($2.50). The story of three adopted children of a rich bachelor. Laid in England, Norway, Vienna, this Swedish-Englishwoman's novel suggests Louisa May Alcott in its engaging, tame but not vapid characters...
...Cohen of the Record: "Harvard, 27 to 7. Captain Torbert Macdonald should have a great day in leading the Crimson eleven to an easy victory. After sitting on the bench all season Torby will be all pepped up and raring to tame the Bulldog again...
Harvard's James Bryant Conant: "Education as usual should be our slogan. If this seems too tame a slogan for these exciting days, let me remind you . . . that this nation now emerges from chaos as the significant home of the arts, of literature, of scholarship, of science. ... I ... make certain assumptions about the next ten years . . . [that] we are not facing the end of civilization . . . that the devastation of the European war will place a unique burden upon the citizens of this nation to carry forward the culture of our time...
Physiologists Britton and Kline went down to Panama, collected a few sloths (which are fairly tame and amenable) and got to work. First, they clocked the animals' normal progress along the underside of a horizontal pole. Speed of a two-toed sloth: a third of a mile an hour. Speed of a three-toed sloth: two-ninths of a mile an hour...
...World's Fair tripper, taking art on the run, could hardly ask for anything more panoramic. Ranging from tame portraits of young girls to woozy, crawling abstractions, from genteel sculptures in baby-blue plaster to great blocks of stone, from Christmas-cardy woodcuts to elusive black-and-whites, the show represents all trends, tastes, techniques. A few exhibits, with their wavering lines, naïve perspectives, jumbled colors, may invite perplexed comparison with little Hilda's fourth-grade drawings. But there is not enough surrealism to bite beholders. Many things in the exhibition treat in some...