Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Albany, N. Y., to work for the passage of a state law to license "genuine astrologers." He said he wanted to "drive out pretenders and charlatans who for 25? will deliver a readymade horoscope." Legislators, well aware that pretenders and charlatans abound, sympathized. But they wondered how to tell a charlatan from an astrologer...
...Today even the French Who's Who (Qui Etes-Vous?) omits his name. "Messieurs les Députés," cried M. Poincaré, "Antoine Monis is not dead! To the shame of our country, La France whom he served as Deputy and Senator for 35 years, I tell you now that M. Monis is alive, but destitute. . . ." The Premier told then of how he had found M. Monis, now 81, living in a wretched single room, forgotten, barely able to keep alive by the pittance he earned as a broken-down lawyer's clerk. "Think! A clerk...
...happen in his institution, when news reached him that pretty Bernice Richardson, 20, one of his freshmen, whom he had just interviewed, had been found moaning on the floor of her room. She had drunk carbolic acid; died within an hour. In their interview President Penney had had to tell her that, since she had failed in French course, she could not register for the next term. Sorority "rushing" was a week away. Miss Richardson's roommate said the carbolic acid had been in their room for months...
August members of the German Scientific Society learned that Surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch of Munich would tell them, at their conference at Karlsruhe, Germany, last week, how he squeezed tubercular pus out of the lungs of consumptive patients. They thronged to hear him. The operation? artificial pneumothorax?is by no means new. An Irish doctor, James Carson of Liverpool, figured it out theoretically in 1821; and during 1894-95 an Italian, Forlanini, worked out the full, practical method. It takes such beautiful advantage of the mechanics of the human torso that the German scientists listened well to Surgeon Sauerbruch, an especially...
...that sort of thing always lies in its too-theoretical use. The ending of the old entrance "conditions" simply means that the University is now considering its Freshman applicants on a broader basis than the often accidental "marks" a boy may get on his entrance papers. School records tell more that final examinations, valuable as the latter are to determine whether a boy is capable of meeting a test when the occasion arises. This will work out so that an applicant with a good school record will not fail of entrance to Yale simply because he may "flunk" a single...