Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...above novels reveal no promising new writers. Few will be remembered longer than a month. Few improve on past performance. But taken together these 22 novels suggest a couple of general observations: 1) it needs a whale of a lot of inferior novels to get a first-rate one; 2) what determines the first-rateness of a novel is not hatred of fascism, love of democracy, reverence for the U. S. past, emulation of best-seller formulas, adhesion to the Party Line, good intentions, or hard work. It is, rather, a private and non-negotiable possession, namely, creative talent...
...anchor when a mine sank her-added evidence that at least part of Germany's attack was with illegal floaters. Further evidence in this direction was furnished when two mines bumped together and went off thunderously near Zeebrugge. Victim of a floating mine was a 54-ft. whale, found on the Belgian coast with a huge hole in his belly. Near by lay four German mines...
...training at Haverford School, plays the part of the stolid and dependable Henry. Guy Clements '40, a veteran of many productions of the Club, will be Joe, a Harlem Negro. His previous acting at Harvard includes leading roles in "Cannibal Carnival," "Dog Beneath the Skin," and "Jonah and the Whale...
...associates at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation are interested in comparing the major energy-controlling organs-brain, heart, thyroid and adrenal glands-of various energetic animals. They have studied specimens of 3,700 species, including the featherless biped, Homo sapiens. On one of their arctic expeditions they caught six white whales, one of which weighed almost exactly the same as Equipoise .when he died. The Whitney stables politely allowed them to take the organs they wanted from the great horse's carcass. Last week Dr. Crile's solid, grey research associate, Dr. Daniel Paul Quiring, gave the figures...
...horse's heart was somewhat bigger than the whale's-4,455 grams to 3,181-and so were his adrenals-47 grams to 35. But the whale's brain was nearly three times as big as the horse's-2,355 grams to 809-and the whale's thyroid was more than three times as big-108 grams to 33. On the whole, therefore, the whale's organic power plant was bigger. Scientific moral: Old Mother Nature, whose selection produced Delphinapterus leucas, is a better hand at turning out an efficient biological engine...