Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...article goes on to point out the extremely fine work done by the University of California, (especially its English Club productions in the Greek Theatre) and the other progressive developments in universities. But the trend of thought was to show how Harvard was a pioneer, and to speak of the high standard which had been at the basis of the work...
...more widely circulated journals may be interested to know that Mr. Nielson finds that college men lose all marks of their special training after ten to fifteen years when viewed in the storied light of a Pullman smoking room, but it is hardly fit food for the thought of Commonwealth avenue...
...perfect a ship which will land perpendicularly, but as yet they have been unsuccessful. While the helicopter makes a nice, little sport machine, I doubt if it will ever be developed as a practical means of eliminating the necessity of a large landing field. Still, things which we thought impossible 20 years ago have now become commonplace, and we really cannot tell what may eventually develop...
...upon a label for the rung above Babbittry, Mr. Lewis evidently recognized his grave responsibility to vocabulary, for he wavered and fussed, changed and substituted, before committing himself to "Dodsworth." His difficulty is plain: Dodsworth, no simple ameba, reacts to stimulae of the shifting European scene not automatically but thoughtfully, individually. Dodsworth is a type, recognizable, familiar; but the type is susceptible to variations. Fran's type also is familiar−to those who read Henry James, and dally in cosmopolitan circles. Literati have even traced resemblances to the first Mrs. Lewis, substituted dark for ash-blond hair, substituted...
...question of whether man shall ever be able to reproduce living light, which is at least twice as efficient as best artificial light, becomes the question whether chemists will ever be able to synthesize the protein luciferin. Dr. Harvey thought that "that will come in the future. We now synthesize fats, sugars, and some of the polypetides." Luciferin seems to be either a peptone or a proteose...