Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stark statement made many scientists thoroughly angry. They formed a committee, chose as its spokesman "Papa Franz'' Boas, 80-year-old Columbia University anthropologist. Papa Franz, a Jew of German birth, has been attacking German racial theories for a quarter-century, and after the rise of the Third Reich his books were burned at Kiel. The Boas committee drew up a counter-manifesto condemning the Stark statement from beginning to end, decrying the "ruthless political censorship'' which is crippling science in Germany...
...Temporary National Economic Committee has been unable to shake off its pseudonym of Monopoly Committee is that it has done a lot of talking about monopoly. Last week the committee was busy looking into the possibilities of patent monopoly. Chairman Joseph O'Mahoney and his conferees chose first to hear from the automobile industry, probably the most beneficent of all patent users. This astute stage-managing will make all the more pointed the conclusions from this week's quizzing of the glass industry, which the committee considers a bird of just the opposite color...
When the Bureau of Traffic Research deserted its quarters in Sever's attic and mover to Yale, the University decided to turn over what was waste space into a much-needed classroom. To head the new project the College chose Reginald H. Phelps '30, Assistant in History and in German and Assistant Dean...
...last week had taken unto itself 430,000 square miles of new territory, well sprinkled with blood. For 17 months it had bored like a host of deliberate, conscienceless termites into the vast stolid flank of Asia, strewing plains and rivervalleys with dead and wounded, and when Japan chose to tell the U. S. that there is a "new situation'' in Asia, all the U. S. Secretary of State could possibly say was that this reply was "not responsive...
...King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra; of heart disease; in London. When Princess Maud married Prince Charles of Benmark (later King Haakon of Norway) in 1896 in a royal love match, there was little prospect of a throne for them. But when Norway seceded from Sweden in 1905, it chose the couple as its sovereigns. To the Norwegian populace they were known as "Mr. King" and "Mrs. Queen...