Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editor of the Harvard Law Review exhibits what is justifiably considered by laymen the worst vice of attorneys-quibbling over the insignificant. The learned editor apparently has a greater future as a pettifogger than as an attorney...
...nurses and diplomats in Nanking are not in a position to have their names attached to accounts which they have written and forwarded to their superiors. These tell of countless cases in which the prestige of the white man in the Orient was still sufficient at Nanking during the worst days for a judicious word, a stern remonstrance or a gentle but firm use of physical strength to do much. More than one Japanese soldier, raping a Chinese woman in broad daylight in the streets of Nanking, was chased off by a white...
Robbery and looting also flourished in Nanking for many weeks. The number of Chinese executed, not killed in battle, totals by the most conservative Nanking estimates 20,000. Excerpt from a Nanking letter written at the worst period: "One [Chinese] boy of seventeen came in with the tale of about 10,000 Chinese men between the ages of 15 and 30 who were led out of the city on the 14th [of January] to the river bank near the ferry wharf. There the Japanese opened up on them with field guns, hand grenades and machine guns. Most of them were...
...Snakes, contrary to popular supposition, have good vision. Those tested included garter snakes, king snakes, ribbon snakes and rattlesnakes. They see worst just before shedding their skins, best just after shedding, because the snake's cornea grows opaque as shedding time nears and is sloughed off with the skin...
...Harvard, Yale, and Princeton are the worst. My boy, who is quite au athlete at Yale, and Lupien out at Harvard are burned up because they can't play in the summer, when there are innumerable boys at Dartmouth, Cornell, and Pennsylvania who get jobs every year with some semi-pro club...