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...Cylinder Complex. The handsome, blond freshman who went to Princeton from St. Paul in the fall of 1913 had been a thoroughly spoiled youngster ("I didn't know till 15 that there was auyone in the world except me . . .")*When he started school at the age of seven, it was on condition that he go only half days, whichever half he chose. Later, when he made the football team at Newman School, the quarterback threatened in the middle of a game to beat up Fitzgerald because he didn't have the guts to make a tackle. Already...
...remain anonymous, comes from Wayne's old home town. Considerably younger than the here, he was consistently pushed into the background by Wayne's exploits (when the pilot scored three touchdowns for the old school, John Wayne ran 92 yards for a touchdown against the Point.) His persecution complex has come to the fore, but at last it appears that he has won out over Wayne...
...also lacks another kind of drive that has marked some great nations. Having absorbed on the basis of mutual tolerance people of so many lands and creeds, the U.S. has not and can have a "master race" complex or a "lawgiver" complex...
...professor of neuroanatomy at the Harvard Medical School, approached the growth problem from another angle: the nerves of amphibians. Newts and salamanders can grow new legs and tails with the greatest of ease. Tadpoles can do the trick too. But when they grow up to be frogs, their more complex bodies can no longer regenerate new members...
...cosmic-ray researcher disagreed: "The mathematics is as complex as anything you'd want to find," he said, pointing to the big Blizzard. "It would be extremely difficult to determine where any part is going to be ten seconds or ten minutes from now. It could be worked out, but I shouldn't want...