Word: everyday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is another important aspect to the subject of chemistry, that of chemistry, that of chemistry an applied to everyday life. Professor Lamb spends a considerable time explaining the chemical nature of practical materials, and, for those interested primarily in this cultural side of the subject, Professor Jones' course in industrial chemistry is especially interesting. It is valuable also for anyone who hopes to enter the technical field. The department's record for placing graduates in good industrial positions in remarkably good...
...undeniable prerogatives of great men is the right to forget about everyday things, to miss out on details of ordinary existence that occupy the thoughts of petty men, men who lack the ability to bestride the world like a Colossus in their appointed tasks of human endeavor. A figure who has led the world in his interpretation of the Romantic poets, for instance, is the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature. But John Livingston Lowes displays the most lovable trait of complete indifference to the Harvard catalogue, and he has from time to time announced in his lectures that...
...Lord Pontefract and some of the other important characters are well-delineated. This much is to be expected, for Mary Borden and her husband, Brigadier-General E. L. Spears, move in circles similar to those she describes, with officers living beyond their means and trying to counter-balance the everyday boredom of peacetime military existence by gambling for high stakes and similar diversions...
Security, as defined by Mr. Winant, is a sum of arrangements set up by society in order that those things which we cherish might be safeguarded against the forces over which we have no control. It is, then, in the picture of our everyday life. "Most people, because of the limitations of economic hazards, could not step out from their narrow sphere of life, so pressing were the obligations of the home. If we insure a man of a more reasonable tenure of office, then we shall get an increase in pride of public service...
...village of Oegstgeest. They were not going to have a Third-Class wedding (free) at the Town Hall, nor a Second-Class wedding ($2.75), but were prepared to pay for a First-Class wedding ($5.50) with the bridegroom in striped trousers and tails, the bride in modest everyday dress. In these becoming circumstances Her Majesty's Government, with the benevolent concurrence of Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina, authorized the marriage of Petronella & Martinus to be held as the only other marriage in The Netherlands on the wedding day of H. R. H. Juliana...