Word: wallower
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...house libraries should be further stocked with best sellers or ancient tomes of interest only to the occasional antiquarian while fundamental text-books are inadequate in number. Nor does the existence of more complete libraries like Boylston and Fogg furnish any excuse for compelling the inquiring student to wallow through several blocks of New England weather to cover his weekly reading assignments...
...seem to make much sense, but the students scribbled in note books apparently taking down everything he said. I asked Uncle Harry why they wanted to take so many notes, and he said he did not know, especially the notes of this professor, who, he said, did nothing but wallow about his dais year after year and say the same thing. Uncle Harry then roared as if he had said something funny, and the lecturer stopped talking for a minute and coughed. Uncle Harry then said thank God when he heard some bells ringing, and we left...
Every year there are in the College about a hundred and fifty students crouched over dog-fish and cats in the laboratories of Zoology three; approximately the same number wallow in the odors of other and alcohol wafted about the laboratory of Chemistry 2a. A smaller, but still considerable group spends its afternoons fulfilling the requirements of Zoology 4 and 5, and of Chemistry 3a and 33. These students estimate the time put in on their laboratory work variously; taking into consideration all the available facts, it is not too much to say that the man of average mentality will...
...when they arrive promptly. Air-Mail Pictorial is printed on "gravure news" stock, some 20% lighter than usual rotogravure paper. Through an arrangement with Imperial Airways, the 16-page, 2-oz. magazine is whisked to Egypt, Irak, India, Africa, Palestine while such old-timers as The Illustrated London News wallow along on steamers. Imperial Airways makes a rate somewhat less than its standard 10? an oz. to carry Air-Mail Pictorial, gets credit therefor in the masthead...
...Sciences of Life, Salvagings of Civilization. Not since Meanwhile (1927) has he written a book that even he would call a novel. With The Bulpington of Blup, which he describes as the "adventures, poses, stresses, conflicts and disaster in a contemporary brain," Novelist Wells is back in his old wallow, dredging up all the old exhibits...