Word: kernel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sang Poet Archibald MacLeish in his Frescoes For Mr. Rockefeller's City. The sound kernel of truth in Poet MacLeish's observation has been clinically noted by Columbia's Anthropologist Franz Boas. At the New York Academy of Medicine last week Dr. Charles Rupert Stockard, embryologist, morphologist and anatomist at Cornell Medical School, offered a possible explanation...
...that swamp land there has risen the sixth largest city in the world. Around the international kernel has grown a Chinese city of nearly 4,000,000. souls. Just outside the city at Hungjao airdrome (see map) occurred the incident which started the war. There two Japanese sailors were reported murdered early this month, whereupon Japanese Admiral Hasegawa promptly demanded indemnity and the withdrawal of Chinese troops to a distance of 20 miles from the International Settlement. When the Chinese expressed distaste at being ordered out of their own country, the Japanese piled sailors ashore to reinforce their permanent garrison...
Powerful factors have been at work in the last twelve months toward a reconsideration of the ill-favored oath law. President Conant and various representatives of Harvard have taken the floor against the principle of the oath, which stifles that free consideration of current problems which is the kernel of true education...
These recommendations would not have stirred any one deeply, least of all the President. The kernel of his message came when he read, "I therefore earnestly recommend . . . the appointment of additional judges in all Federal courts, without exception, where there are incumbent judges of retirement age who do not choose to retire or resign." This meant, according to the draft of the bill which he sent with his message, that he would be empowered to appoint not more than 50 new judges to duplicate those who are now 70 and have been ten years on the bench. Not stated...
...Repeal sentiment for Adolf Gobel, Inc. (frankfurters). Tired of writing about food, food, food, B. & B. called up 200 women in Manhattan, found only seven in favor of the 18th Amendment. Promptly they spread copy predicting return of beer and plugging its time-honored connection with spiced meats. Kernel of the campaign was Gobel's offer to donate a part of each sale to some worthy anti-Prohibition organization. Gobel's sausage sales jumped from 21,000 Ib. per week...