Word: america
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entire program is planned to commemorate the establishment in this country of constitutional government, a form imported from England by the Puritan fathers when they first settled in America. In order to present the most striking program possible, a committee appointed by the Governor has been working many months preparing the report which last night was filed with the Clerk of the Legislature. In addition to Mr. Parker, who is chairman of the commission, Harvard men who have been assisting on the committee are Allan Forbes '97, Wellington Wells '90, and F. B. Winthrop '91. Dr. Henry Colt, also...
...find them returning with a great deal of information concerning the land. And then they may discover a great deal concerning our own continent, which was completely covered by ice approximately 2000 years ago. The ice formation in the Antarctic is as old as the one which previously covered America, and by examination it may reveal much...
...sort of boarding school with "a larger library with some books in it." The books were of course mostly theological. Today there are among other departments a great system of chemical laboratories a beautiful and elaborately devised medical school around which hospitals cluster observatories in Cambridge and South America and Arizona a branch school of medicine in China a main library with millions of books charts manuscripts; there are museums of a dozen specializations in short Harvard has become a great storehouse of our knowledge of man's past and of the earth and of the universe before and beyond...
...unmasked name), one each in Detroit, Minneapolis and Newark, ten in New York, one in Cleveland. The conferees pointed with satisfaction to recent endorsements of Birth Control -by the Junior League of New York City, the Universalist Church (last month), the Congregational Ministers of Connecticut, the Central Conference of America Rabbis (last June), the English National Council of Women (last month), the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, the New York League of Women Voters.* Disclosed for the first time last week to the general U. S. public was the fact that Russian experimenters have successfully inoculated...
...happen about four times a year. Two especially sensitive zones exist: i) along the almost continuous stretch of the Alps, Caucasus and Himalaya mountains; 2) along the whole mountainous circle of the Pacific. Often shaken Italy is in the first zone, California and Japan in the second. Eastern North America, along the Appalachian chain goes through a noticeable, but usually harmless quake at least once a year, and a damaging one at about five year intervals. The probable cause of last week's quake, according to Arthur Keith, chairman of the National Research Council's Committee on Geology...