Word: deviling
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...pious folk a century ago believed that Nicolo Paganini was in league with the Devil; some swore they had seen Old Nick at the Italian violinist's side as he fiddled like the very devil himself. No one before him, and few after, could do what he did with a bow - extra long, for his abnormally long arm - and four strings. A haughty showman, he employed unusually thin strings, not only to produce extremely delicate harmonics (overtones two octaves higher than normal), but also, said some, so that he could break a string, use the remaining three as makeshift...
...even tax-exemption are perhaps at stake. . . . No matter what happens in Europe or here, the poise and loyalty of American scholarship must remain above suspicion. Let us not learn too late that the educated fool can cite "historical facts" to prove his purpose just as well as the devil can cite scripture. Furthermore, let us not forget that the original Trojan horse that doomed Troy did not goose-step through the gates, but entered as a holy sanctimonious offering to the gods. George Kingsley Zipf '23, University Lecturer...
...extremely unusual. Most of the men do well to make laborer's wages. Many do better occasionally. Sometimes they find such rich ore that to drill the highly volatile stuff is dangerous: the fumes. But again some miner will pick away for days in the all but airless devil's pocket & have hardly 50 pounds of rich ore to show...
...producing State. Her daily production (around 430,000 bbl.) is more than enough to satisfy the estimated present needs of France and Britain combined. It is around 30% of Texas' output, 70% of California's, 105% of Oklahoma's. Scrambling in a devil-take-the-hindmost race to get the oil out of the ground, Illinois producers have transformed the business from a partially regulated hurly-burly into a madhouse...
...centrosome separates and moves to opposite sides, the chromosomes line up in the middle and then split evenly; then some thing nips in the sides of the cell to a wasp-waisted constriction, and finally the cell divides into two healthy duplicates of its original self. Biologists have the devil's own time trying to explain this mysterious, well-drilled maneuver. In Strömberg's view, it is initiated and controlled by an "immaterial wave of organization." Though immaterial, the guiding wave has a structure in spacetime. Strömberg calls it a "genie" (plural, "genii...