Word: setting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Everyone knows the data of American prosperity which have become commonplace. There was one motor car for every eight inhabitants, one radio set for every four inhabitants, one telephone for every three. . . .* Suddenly this beautiful scene collapsed and we had a series of black days. . . . Black days followed black days and prosperity was replaced by long lines of unemployed waiting for soup and bread in the great American cities. . . . From that day we also were pushed into the high seas, and from that day navigation has become extremely difficult...
...onwards that he became one of the world's great billiard players. Never sensational as an office boy, he is spectacular, Napoleonic with a cue. He takes daring chances and shoots so fast the balls hardly have time to stop rolling after one shot before he is set for the next. Last year he ran out a game in a world's championship in 32 minutes. Only one man in the world could hope to beat him and he was Ralph Greenleaf, impassive, shiny-haired defending champion. In Dwyer's Billiard Academy in Manhattan last week Greenleaf...
Wheat. The Canadian Wheat Pool was a full-fledged organization in 1924. It attempted to control world prices, failed. The Federal Farm Board, set up last year, has pegged the price of wheat in the U. S. but found no way of disposing of its surplus. The result may be transferring the loss from the farmers to all the taxpayers. To limit production in future, the Board has for months been urging, begging, warning U. S. farmers to plant less wheat, at least 15% less. Last week the Department of Agriculture reported a 1.1% acreage reduction in 1931 winter wheat...
...argument about heredity v. environment, knew that Sir Francis Gallon in 1876 had tried to show heredity prevails, by examining the histories of twins. Skeptical of Galton's extremist conclusions, Herr Professor Lange decided to adopt Galton's method but without preconceived ideas. With painstaking cunning he set about gathering data on twins one or both of whom had a criminal record. When the dust of research settled, Herr Lange's results seemed to show that Galton was right, though Galton had gone too far. Says Introducer J. B. S. Haldane: "An analysis of the cases shows...
...drinks for the crowd. . . . As is customary in Triangle shows, the script is peppered with undergraduate lampoons on the Princeton faculty, curriculum and social system, which are more interesting to student audiences and immediate relatives of the cast than to the public at large. A new high is set in Princeton satire, however, with a song which demonstrates how to become a member of one of the better Princeton clubs, particularly how to greet classmates on the main campus thoroughfare, McCosh walk. "Doing the McCosh walk" advises young men to arch their backs, protrude their chests, ignore less fortunate friends...