Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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He failed in his first examination for the doctorate of science. He knew he could pass it, but he had attended a celebration the night before. And, having ideas of his own, he refused to "beat the system." Later he took the degree, be came Research Associate of the Cancer...
An unexpected upset in squash play was seen yesterday in the outcome of the matches of the University tournament, when D. F. Davis '30 defeated J. L. Pool '28, second seeded player of the tournament, 2-1. Pool has not been defeated heretofore, and has just recently advanced to the...
Inasmuch as the Twentieth Century abounds in paradoxes, it is not the vogue to express either amazement or bewilderment over the sometimes irreconcilable phenomena of modernity. Still credulity and belief have their limitations and even the imagination talks when asked to solve the enigmatical causa causans of the enforcement of...
Captain Chase and his men, once more on the defensive, rallied and carried the fight back down the ice, peppering the barrier consisting sometimes of five men back to their own blue line. As time passed things began to roughen and penalties were numerous. The climax of a sensational battle...
"These advances in science have greatly influenced the philosophic and religious thinking of the scientific man, for it is a great mistake to think the tendency of advancing science is toward materialism. Just the opposite. The repeated discoveries of new and unexpected types of phenomena in the physical world make...