Word: barred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Williston's work on the Committee for uniform legislation among the several states has been found worthy of the highest praise of the American Bar Association. That his time has been spent in a worthy cause no one who has had the simplest interstate experience with its majesty the law can deny. That he has performed it with such signal distinction cannot fail to be a satisfaction to the University which he has served so long...
...amendment, which finally passed only by a 38 to 36 vote. Furthermore, Utah's Reed Smoot (opposed) announced that the amendment would be voted upon again when the tariff bill is reported out by the Committee of the Whole. If the amendment stands, Customs officials can still bar "indecent pictures and transparencies," contraceptives, and books or other printed matter advocating forcible resistance to U. S. law or threatening the persons of U. S. citizens...
...station for Experimental Evolution at Washington (resigned 1922), from a research association at Harvard Medical School (resigned 1921 and again 1925), from the presidency of the University of Maine (resigned 1925), and from the presidency of the University of Michigan (resigned last spring). Last week the mice were at Bar Harbor, Me., in the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory for Cancer Research, of which Dr. Little has taken charge. The dogs were waiting for a home in New York City; for last week their master became managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer...
...Maine and the University of Michigan, he kept mice (1,000 of them at Ann Arbor), studying as an avocation the heredity of their colors, of their susceptibility or non-susceptibility to cancer. That avocation has now become his profession. He will shuttle between the cancer research laboratory at Bar Harbor and the offices of the cancer control society in Manhattan...
Lawyer Weatherby is forlorn and frustrated until one evening when Miss Cowl strolls into his living room as Jenny Valentine, a famed actress. She immediately perceives that, despite his greying hair and prowess at the bar, he is a small boy beset by vultures. Sharing his enthusiasm for roses and stamp-collecting, she wins his confidence, lures him away to her camp in the hills, where, after a great deal of coy urgency on her part, he consents to stay...