Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...killed Frankie Campbell in California (TIME, Sept. 15). At times no one could understand what was holding Schaaf up, at other times Schaaf, cooler, more experienced, made Baer ludicrously thrash the air. After ten rounds of awkward and exciting mauling. the judges decided that Schaaf had the edge. Baer, though the loser, fought so willingly that he may be given other and better chances to show what he can do. Enthusiasts called it "the best heavyweight go in New York this year...
...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 not the slightest evidence of freedom of the will in the ordinary sense of that word. . . . Taking the record of any criminal, we could predict the behavior of a monozygotic (identical: born from...
...HOUNDS RAN : Four Centuries of Foxhunting-Edited by A. Henry Higginson& #151;Huntington Press ($25).- Though it is usually better to give than to receive, even at Christmas, if you have the remotest interest in fox-hunting you can only be glad if some tycoonish friend bought and bestowed on you this book. Designed and printed by famed Typographer D. B. Updike, illustrated with old prints, engravings, modern drawings, with Forewords by Poet Laureate John Masefield, Edgar Astley Milne (the "sporting parson," co-Master of the Cattislock Hunt, Dorset, England), As Hounds Ran is as complete and readable an anthology...
...Congressman's soul came a curious concatenation of circumstances : the stockmarket crashed and took his amateurish speculations with it; beautiful Mrs. Miller hooted with laughter at the suggestion that she divorce her husband and marry Dan; a heinous appropriation bill reared its ugly head and Daniel smacked it, though in vain. The last you see of him he is flying furiously westward to prevent Irma Schmultz from sailing to the Philippines. As you close the book you are sure that he will get her, sure that he will be almost unanimously reelected. The Author. Janet Fairbank's father...
...Psalm XXXIX, Verses 12, 13; XL: 1, 2, 3; CL complete), uses a chorus to describe in Latin the transition from abject penitence to exultant praise. In the orchestra are no violins, violas or clarinets but five flutes, many other wind instruments, drums, two pianos and a harp. Bostonians, though for the most part baffled by Stravinsky's new designs, sensed their importance, wanted another hearing. More immediate was Boston's grasp and appreciation of Stravinsky's scintillant Caprice for piano and orchestra, given its U. S. premiere the same afternoon...