Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week "Mitch" Hepburn had decided to jerk himself up by mighty tugs at the provincial bootstraps of Ontario to the Premiership of all Canada. As a build-up for this, the Premier had deliberately provoked a provincial election which he need never have to fight and was hell-bent to win it Oct. 6. With chances heavily favoring "Mitch," last week Canadian wiseacres agreed that a victory for Liberal Premier Hepburn must severely shake the position and prestige of Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Although both are still nominally Liberals, Hepburn and King have broken...
...Louis (or other types of encephalitis) is contracted, no one knows how to prevent its spread. As the result of their 1933 experience St. Louis doctors generally feed (give injections of) concentrated glucose solution to sufferers. This is believed to reduce brain inflammation as well as build up a patient's strength. In four or five days the fever usually abates. The patient then is given blood from a survivor of the disease-by direct transfusion, by a hypodermic injection into the muscle of a buttock, or in the form of blood serum. Professors Howard Anderson McCordock and Walter...
...campaign for re-election-the Mayor of New York, with marked emphasis on the "I" confidently boomed. "Colonel Somervell and I will open it at Easter 1939, in time for the World's Fair." As an afterthought he added-"Why doesn't some smart guy build a hotel here...
...Manhattan went Tuskegee Institute's A. W. Curtis Jr., to raise $1,354,290 to build a laboratory dedicated to famed, slaveborn, seventyish Negro Botanist George Washington Carver-Said Mr. Curtis, "We want to build this laboratory honoring Dr. Carver while he is still alive. We want him to work in the laboratory so that we will have the benefit of his guidance and advice...
...months' rest was Hindu Jiddu Krishnamurti, onetime leader of the Theosophists. Said he, "In Europe men are acting like a pack of lunatics; talking peace and making ready for war. I just go on talking to people, trying to persuade them to break down the little walls they build around themselves...