Word: barred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laboratory at Bar Harbor, Me., Dr. Little every year breeds 50,000 mice with hereditary cancers. But this does not mean that cancer is hereditary in humans, he says, for the mice may be inbred for 15 or 20 generations before cancer becomes part of their physiological heritage. "Life . . . superimposes so many varying circumstances and facts that any hereditary tendency so far detected may easily become swamped by other influences. . . . The risk of having cancer because one or both parents had it is not of practical importance...
...quietly, departed from the Court the man whose appointment to it by Woodrow Wilson in 1916 shocked every then living ex-president of the American Bar Association including William Howard Taft; raised a storm in Senate and press that echoed long after he took his seat on the bench. Mr. Taft later apologized to Mr. Brandeis for doing him a "grave injustice." But many of his contemporaries lived and died in the belief that Louis Brandeis, the "People's Lawyer" of Boston where he practiced for 37 years, the courtroom David against the industrial and financial Goliaths...
What Crimson honors there were, Johnny Bunker. Bill Young, Frank Hubbard, and Art Mason afforded. Bunker took a first in the high jump by clearing the bar at six feet, and Hubbard pulled through with a win in the 60-yard dash by lowering his own time to 6.6 seconds. Mason hurled the twelve-pound shot 50 feet, and outdistanced Shattuck of Exeter to place in the number one position. By racing the 800-yard run in 1:19.3, Young took that event for Harvard...
...January 1930, a swindler named Clarence Charles Hatry stood at the bar of London's Old Bailey, heard himself convicted of "one of the most appalling frauds which ever disfigured the commercial reputation of this country." The collapse of Promoter Hatry's $10,000,000 forged bond bubble in September 1929 had sapped confidence in The City, helped to precipitate the U. S. stockmarket crash, and hastened worldwide Depression. Hatry was sentenced to 14 years in prison, two -of them at hard labor. Last week, having served nine years of his sentence and having impressed Home Secretary...
...effect, the plan was to improve the balance of trade (difference between exports and imports) by reducing imports. Applied in practice for the first time fortnight ago, exchange control appeared virtually to bar all imports from Japan (perhaps in retaliation for Japan's refusal to buy New Zealand wool), and cut other imports from 20% to 80%. British imports were cut least. The policy had the same effect as extremely high tariffs, except that restraining pressure was put on local importers rather than on foreign businesses...