Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pope's nose to Reader Wiswell. A. Lincoln proclaimed: "... I do, therefor, invite my fellow citizens ... to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving...
...Apart from the matters of emphasis Mr. Ross's article can be taken as expressing opinions widely held in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Members of the Faculty naturally feel special apprehension over matters directly involving their responsibility to the future of the University as a whole--all the more, perhaps, because they have been pointedly reminded that "when a department makes recommendations to the Dean on matters of personnel it is not acting as a faculty committee but as an informal group to whom the administration has turned for advice." At the same time the majority of them...
First steam locomotive to run on any U. S. railroad was Delaware & Hudson's British-bought Stourbridge Lion, On Aug. 8, 1829,* the spindly monster, threatening to come apart at every trembling trestle, chugged some two miles along D. & H.'s Honesdale, Pa.-Carbondale line. D. & H. abandoned this line...
...polio virus is that it usually enters the body through the delicate mucous membranes of the nose. Five years ago, while studying polio epidemics in Massachusetts and Vermont, Dr. William Lloyd Aycock of Harvard noticed that polio often ran in families, even when brothers and sisters were living far apart. He suspected that children of these susceptible families might have inherited unusually thin nose linings, easily penetrated by the polio virus. So he decided to set up "virus barriers" of tough new cells in the nasal membranes of monkeys by injecting them with tiny doses of the female sex hormone...
...most U. S. newspaper readers, yacht racing last week was as inconsequential as a split infinitive. But for the slow-stirring, world-apart folk on Maryland's Eastern Shore, the Comet Class championship regatta, held on Chesapeake Bay, wrote the most exciting headlines of last weekend. For the Comet (originally christened Crab) is the family-tree-conscious Eastern Shore's own baby...