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Word: usefully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today at 4 o'clock the Varsity nine will oppose an unusually strong Northeastern team on Soldiers Field. Slim Curtiss will be the probable Crimson pitcher, while the Huskles will use Gus Rook, their mound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Batsmen Strengthen League Lead by Defeating Green Invaders | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Rats are not generally considered either popular or useful animals. But to scientists, who use them for biological and psychological experiments, they are both. In many laboratories, in which dozens of rats are kept in one cage, it is essential that they be marked in some way so that any one rat can quickly be singled out from all the other rats. Labels attached to the rats or marks painted on them are not entirely satisfactory. A more popular method is notching or perforating the ears according to a code. Another is cutting off various combinations of toes, or different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tattooed Rats | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...There are two schools of mentality in physics, the pragmatists who move toward reality by wholesome experiment, and the dogmatists who use unwholesome imagination. "For the pragmatic spirit physical research is a process of evolution from what has been established to new experimental knowledge; for him there is no such thing as classical physics or modern physics, but only physics. . . . The physicist of the dogmatic school operates in quite a different manner. . . . He starts out from ideas that have arisen primarily in his own brain, or from arbitrary definitions of relationships between symbols. ... In so far as [his formulae...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stark Statement | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Manager Willy-wee Calfee of the Lampoon told the CRIMSON last night that he will use the proceeds from the Vogue issue, reported to be in the neighborhood of $1.21, to hire a horse-drawn vehicle to take the rival teams to Soldiers Field at 3 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FELLER, GOD ON MOUND TODAY AS LEGITS, ILLEGITS CLASH | 5/19/1938 | See Source »

Three graduate students also received $300 apiece from the Bowdoin fund. They are Philippe Dur 2G., A.B. '35, of New York City, who wrote on "The Use of History"; Raymond A. M. de Roover 2G.B., Lic-en-Sc. Com. et Fin. Institute Superieur de Antwerp, Belgium, 1924, of Antwerp, for an essay entitled "A Florentine Firm of Cloth Manufacturers"; and Leo Goldberg 4G., S.B. '34, of New Bedford, who wrote on "The Collaboration between Physics and Astrophysics with Reference to the Cosmic Behavior of Helium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINNING BOWDOIN ESSAYISTS RECEIVE $1700 PRIZE MONEY | 5/18/1938 | See Source »

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