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...most popular of these is perhaps the most exaggerated one, for the "chubber" is almost a Dartmouth stereotype. No one seems to know the origin of the word "chubber". Evidently it originated in the '30s, but no one is yet sure whether it was intended as a derogatory, cynical, or laudatory term. One thing is certain: it refers to the Dartmouth outdoorsman. And that being the case chubber refers to almost 800 Dartmouth men, members of a vast organization known as the Dartmouth Outing club...
Although the builders of the first Leviathan got their name for a craft from Canard's newly-launched luxury liner of the same name, its origin is actually in the Book of Job, Chapter 41. In its Biblical cantext, Leviathan means whale or large fish...
...Stanley didn't give a damn how he said a thing. His purpose was to convey his idea. He had no awareness of himself at all." As he lived the part, Brando dragged his audience back by the hair of their heads to the Neanderthal cave of human origin, and made them stare at the animal leavings on the floor. "It was awful and it was sublime," said one director. "Only once in a generation do you see such a thing in the theater...
There will still be plenty of dark-skinned Negroes, but skin color, Dr. Stern points out, is a superficial characteristic rather than a dependable indicator of racial origin. The workings of heredity produce many dark-skinned Negroes with thin lips and many light-skinned ones with thick lips. One type is as mixed as the other, though the white population, which judges chiefly by skin color, usually considers the dark type more authentically Negro. A light-skinned Negro can "pass" as white, although in other respects than skin color he may be strongly Negro...
...bottoms of the deep oceans were once believed to be smooth, but modern sounding gear has found all sorts of irregularities. Certain great areas, however, are almost as level as the water surface above them, and the origin of these smooth "abyssal plains" is something of a mystery. Many theories about them have been proposed, including the easy explanation that the plains are smooth because nothing ever happened to make them otherwise...