Word: assigning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peck, with the formal lines of smaller Loudon establishments being used as a model. After the death of Professor Peck the Garden passed under the charge of Thomas Nuttall as Curator, and later of Thaddeus William Harris, the funds having dwindled so that it was no longer possible to assign the income to a full professorship. About 1842 the income of a newly established professorship, endowed by Joshua Fisher 1766, became available, and to this new chair Dr. Asa Gray was invited. The most recent change came in 1923, when Assistant Professor S. F. Hamblin was made director...
...Government take formal action toward the repeal of Articles 231 [confession of War guilt], 429, 430 [occupation of the Rhine] of the Versailles Treaty." 2) "That the German Government shall undertake no new burdens or reparations obligations." (i.e. Down with the Young Plan.) 3) "That the German Government shall assign specific punishment by penal servitude for any official of the Reich who fails to carry out the provisions of the proposed law or violates it by pledging Germany to new reparations payments." Impartial observers concede Hugenberg followers the necessary 4,000,000 votes to bring this law before the Reichstag...
...were before the Freshman Dormitories, and the encouragement of cliques and of manouvers of clubs on the basis of school associations only. The authorities would be faced with one of two alternatives if they adopted the suggestion made by Mr. Frederick Windsor of Middlesex. They would either have to assign rooms to Middlesex men. Exeter men or Boston Latin men, away from their schoolmates for three years. This seems to be a bit extreme: or else they would have to assign the Freshman a room next to his schoolmate, and we would have school cliques and isolation of groups even...
...Chinese still go to toads for materia medica. The dried venom of certain of their toads they give internally to break up colds and apply externally to treat toothache and local inflammations. The apparent effectiveness of Chinese toad venom induced Johns Hopkins to assign its Dr. Hans Jensen and R. K. Chen to examine the dried venom. Last week they reported that...
...late years, inspiration has given way to rules. Company officers, forming the Committee on Nomenclature, methodically assign prefixes, thus: Mt., or Mountain for observation cars containing sections; Saint or Mac for cars with twelve sections, one drawing room; Silver for the California Limited of the Santa Fe; Great for the Great Northern Oriental Limited; Sunset for Sunset Limited of the Southern Pacific...