Word: address
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most modern U. S. Presidents sooner or later fall into the habit of comparing themselves, directly or obliquely, with one of their greater predecessors in office. In 1931 Herbert Hoover went to Valley Forge to deliver a George Washington address. When he got through, the Press had the distinct impression that the 31st President was thinking of himself and his troubles in terms of the First President, that the noble general who shivered at the Valley Forge of the Revolution and the great engineer who was then shivering at the Valley Forge of the Depression, were really...
...Roosevelt and his friend, Senator Bulkley of Ohio, who edited The Crimson when the two were schoolmates together at Harvard, the paper's editorial of Monday, criticizing the President's now famous address to Congress last Friday, must not have been very encouraging news from the old alma mater...
...controversies of the century. The tall, rugged man with deep-set eyes and heavy chin who was reading a paper was Arthur Holly Compton. Newshawks esteem this topflight physicist and Nobel Prizewinner of the University of Chicago for his ability to get things said without benefit of polysyllables. His address last week was understandable to anyone who knew what photons and ions are. He introduced one hybrid term of his own devising: isocosms, or lines of equal cosmic ray intensity on the world map. He showed on a chart how isocosms closely follow the lines of equal geomagnetic intensity...
Facts of this sort were pointed out to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in St. Louis last week by Dr. Oscar Riddle, 58, crack geneticist of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, in an address entitled "The Confusion of Tongues." Dr. Riddle asserted that it was high time for science to carry evolution back not only to primordial organisms, but to their natural production from wholly inanimate substances. It has been learned that all that is necessary for the spontaneous generation of certain sugars is sunlight, colored surfaces, water, carbon dioxide, moderate temperatures. Such factors were undoubtedly present...
...nowadays not to be incorporated." Boyd's City Dispatch was founded in Manhattan in 1830 by John T. Boyd. It delivered letters, competing with the U. S. Post Office in what was then an entirely legal business. The company printed its own stamps, which were good for any address within the city limits, set up its post boxes at various drug stores, employed 150 letter carriers. Out-of-town mail was delivered either to the Government post office or to the Pony Express. In 1880 when the U. S. prohibited private mail-carrying, Boyd's went into...