Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that last highball and the extra pressure on the accelerator rounding Death Curve is being employed by scientific sealots at Columbia as justification for an epochal experiment. Were it not for their undoubtedly serious intent, this trial of the savants would degenerate into more than an attempt at the world's coffee-drinking championship, for they plan to pour at least one thousand cups of coffee into three dozen otherwise normal young men and women from the university, questioning them after each cup until their ultimate capacity is reached. The conclusions of Columbia's psychophysical experts, published in a sophisticated...
...oration befitting the day. Mr. Fisher is not unknown to Boston and Cambridge audiences, since he has been a lecturer at the Lowell Institute here twice in past years. His address will come at the height of the tercentennial celebration, after a procession of dignitaries from all over the world has marched to a special pavilion which will, it is planned, be erected on the terrace in front of the State House. This pavilion will seat about 4000 people, all of whom will be guests invited by the Commonwealth, including the President of the United States, the governors...
...There are only three large regions in the world which are unexplored so far; Antarctica, the Polar Sea region, and portions of the Sahara desert. Of these Antarctica is the largest by far, and it is also the least known...
...that Truth which in Latin is inscribed upon the Harvard seal. Perhaps it is the never failing presence in Harvard classes of a man or a few men who in college give promise and in later life make the promise good of signal distinction and usefulness in the world...
...Little has been active in the interests of birth control for many years and has published several articles on that and related subjects. In addition to his academic positions he has held many posts of importance in the scientific world and is at present managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer In charge of the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial laboratory for cancer research at Bar Harbor Maine...