Word: tuneful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cylinder. When suspended over gold-bearing ground, the indicator was supposed to vibrate. Explained Septuagenarian Haas: "I call it a mineral vibrator. . . . The principle on which it works is affinity with affinity. I have to have a gold affinity to detect gold. . . . My instrument is loaded with affinity. ... I tune in with my gold vibrator. It is like a radio. You dial until you get a certain station. . . . When I take it in my hands I am dialed in for gold...
...burly Professor J. (for John) Duncan Spaeth is famed among Princeton men as the loudest lecturer on the faculty, the most tumultuous impersonator of Shakespearean characters, Princeton's longtime crew coach (1910-25), half-brother of "Tune Detective" Sigmund Spaeth. Last week new, small University of Kansas City ran up great telegraph tolls persuading Professor Spaeth to become its first president...
...flow of dressing-room profanity. Off the diamond, Cochrane is as affable as he is tense and irritable when professionally busy. He lives in a nine-room English brick house with his wife and children. Gordon Jr., 10, and Joan. 4. He plays the saxophone, on which his favorite tune is "The Lady in Red." He shares the enthusiasm of most baseballers for hunting, which he expects to do in Wyoming next month. He smokes Camels, has a ping-pong table in his basement, keeps a secretary to answer his fan letters-200 a week...
...Oklahoma law school was the end for Pinky. The tune that was bothering him the day be received his release was something about the object of his affection. Pinky put it on paper, and soon sorority girls the nation over were playing it again and again on the victrola they hadn't used since the radio came...
Dean Pound's recommendation is sound and progressive, fully in tune with the changing times. The faculties of the college and the law school should give the plan the most serious consideration, for, once concluded, it cannot fail to hasten the trend towards a closer integration of the last years in school and the first years in college...