Word: neckedness
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Well, if this is so, and Dean Lobdell should know whereof he speaks, the campus at least more accurately and with greater fidelity imitates the screen than the screen recreates the campus, since film views of the academic life have usually been more comical than representative. But somehow it is...
Part of the Nicaraguan Press again hailed leather-necked, two-fisted U. S. Marines as "incorruptible" last week, as they again supervised a Nicaraguan presidential election, their second.
Splitting the foam-flecked blue waters of the Mediterranean the S. S. Rex, pride of Italy's rejuvenated merchant marine. last week completed her engine trials in triumph. One of the two biggest ships built since the War (51,000 tons), the Rex tore over her 600-mi. course...
In Mexico the real President is General Plutarco Elias Calles, a bull-necked but enlightened political boss. He had enough of being President in 1928, prefers nowadays to make other men Presidents, let them take the risks. In 1929 few Mexicans had ever heard of their Great Engineer, but General...
When newsmen at Zurich, Switzerland last week wondered why Professor Auguste Piccard continued to postpone his balloon ascension into the stratosphere, even when weather appeared favorable, the long-haired, long-necked Belgian professor told them: "I promised Mme Piccard that I would not do anything foolish." In fact Mme Piccard...