Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James Henry Thomas's real duties will be to act as a Minister of Employment. To him the Prime Minister gave the mighty task of settling Britain's unemployment, gravest problem in England today...
...present animals, one that lives both in water and on land, apparently secretes a fluid whose components are both animal and vegetable. One ingredient is ergosterol, which is found in cod liver oil. Another is adrenalin exactly like that taken from the suprarenal glands of animals. Two other ingredients act like digitalis, which the purple foxglove produces. There is a reservation in the scientists' report. They do not know how the Chinese dry and prepare their toad venom. Strange things may be added, befogging a true analysis...
Like most of the State-supported universities, Cornell began with the Morrill Act of 1862, a Federal land-grant law which afforded sites to all States with gumption sufficient to erect their own places of higher education. The youngest member of the New York State Senate in 1864 was Andrew Dickson White, then 32. Among the elder Senators was a man whom Senator White described as "tall, spare and austere; with a kindly eye, saying little and that dryly. He did not appear unamiable but there seemed in him an aloofness; this was Ezra Cornell...
...absence of F. A. Clark '29, who will be with the crew at Red Top throughout Commencement week, A. R. Sweezy '29 will act as third marshal at the Class Day and Commencement exercises net week, according to an announcement made last night by A. E. French '29, first marshal of the graduating class...
...days ago W. J. Bingham '16 announced that Professor Kennedy of Princeton had accepted the invitation of the Harvard and Yale authorities to act as referee of the Harvard-Yale-Oxford-Cambridge track meet in the Stadium on July 13. Mr. Bingham and Professor Kennedy were the directors of Harvard and Princeton athletics respectively at the time of the break in athletic relations between the two universities three years...