Word: transient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House will be little more than enough to buy three or four books. It must be realized that, while literature is ever modern, many books on government, history, economics, or science have only ephemeral value. Constantly new books and new authorities arise to supplant them. There are also the transient books of criticism and fiction which are necessary to complete the satisfactory library...
...Scot in his 503, stoutish with thin grey hair, teaches a young men's Bible class at the Baptist church. His brother is a Roman Catholic priest. On the bench hearing divorce cases, he tilts his head back, eyes the witness under his glasses. Popular with Reno's transient colony, he likes to marry a woman to a new husband a few minutes after he has divorced her from...
...thus avoiding the use of entrance grades as the test of the student's fitness to remain in the institution the Technology authorities appear to have decided wisely. The advantages which the graduates of the best preparatory schools have in their preparation and the amount of transient knowledge which can be absorbed with the help of a hired tutor greatly limit entrance grades as a true gauge of ability. On the other hand, in spite of the prevalence of tutorial schools accessible to college students, college grades are largely the result of industry and aptitude for the subject...
Russell Hall is to be torn down. This may bring a transient discontent to graduates with sentimental recollections and to architects with the task of harmonizing the conglomerate Adams House, but it will be welcome news to the undergraduates. Nevertheless, the suggestion is rather too tardy to be met with whole-hearted approval. A little forethought could have prevented the architectural melee that now exists. Russell could have been torn down at an earlier time and a more symmetrical building erected on the ground between Westmorly and Plympton Street. But any change is desirable for the dormitory is neither comely...
...ponder, try again. In the heat of creation many a composer has irrevocably lost inspirations which flashed through his mind's ear and away before he could capture them on paper. Last week came news of an invention to enable affluent pianists to compose at ease, to capture transient beauty before it eludes memory. The device: "Music Writer." The inventor: Dr. Moritz Stoehr, professor of bacteriology at Mount St. Vincent College, N. Y. The principle: same as the typewriter. Dr. Stoehr has labored on his invention for twelve years, earning at last the praise of no less a maestro...