Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course this is a reaction to Herbert Hoover's recent plea for material aid in that field. But he stressed a rather different point. His interest was, after all, in pure science. The interest of the "Post" is not. Believing with Dr. Penniman that a "university is a glorified factory" it suggests that "in giving money, prudent men desire to know in advance what knowledge it will buy what benefits it will confer." And here through the veneer the old surface shows. If the gown is to be guildered it must be a useful gown...
...Students from the peasant and working classes", continued the noted economist, "are not only given a free education by the state, but they are even paid to go to school unless furnished with ample outside means. This aid from the government includes tuition, food, lodging pocket money, and even baths and barber shop attention...
...practical basis. The committee feels that the lack of success to date has been due in part to the failure of the waiters to realize fully their responsibilities, but more largely to the failure of those responsible for the running of the dining halls to sympathize with and aid in furthering an innovation that enables men, who might not otherwise be able to meet their expenses, to secure a college education
...keep pneumonia two years ago from striking at the wife of Lucius Nathan Littauer, wealthy glove manufacturer of Gloversville, N. Y. (onetime, 1897-1907, Republican congressman from New York), from filling her lungs until gasping, coma-stricken, she died. Mr. Littauer, like many another grief-stricken man,* resolved to aid medical science in uncovering knowledge that might have prevented her death. So last week he gave $5,000 to New York University for the study and cure of pneumonia, and promised to give another like amount every six months...
...known also as mal de mer and nausea marma, to which most people, even sailors, are subject. He as found that there are five theories for its causation: 1) the labyrinthine (the ear contains two tiny sacs, the utricle and the saccule, and three semicircular canals, all of which aid in special orientation); 2) "muscle sense" disturbance (the muscle nerves localize in space the position of the limbs, head, eyes and other parts of the body); 3) eyestrain (the patient gets dizzy looking at the ever-changing sea); 4) peripheral vagus-nerve irritation (the insides get shaken...