Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...representations of white men he could find. By 1933 he was ready to put his notes together. In that year, however, Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and preoccupation with other cultures than the "Aryan" became dangerous. Forced to resign, Professor Lips was finally driven to Paris, whence Columbia University invited him to finish his work in New York...
...Louis' sleeping sickness is one of the two forms of encephalitis for which the causes are known.* The other is a Japanese type. Other, puzzling forms are: epidemic encephalitis, which Dr. Margaret Holden of Columbia University believes is also caused by a virus; Australian X disease; encephalitis following inoculation against diphtheria (rare); encephalitis following an attack of infectious disease, such as chickenpox, measles, whooping cough. Also of undetermined origin is the famed case of Chicago's Patricia Maguire, 31, who, drowsing for five and a half years, last week could not undergo a badly needed excision...
Overgrown Atoms. Headliner of the convention was a round-faced, gum-chewing professor of Columbia University, Harold Clayton Urey, who won a Nobel Prize in 1934 for his spectrographic identification of deuterium, the doubleweight hydrogen atom which in combination with oxygen makes heavy water...
...Mayor Kelly, whose policemen he said killed ten workers in the Memorial Day massacre at a Republic Steel plant. Conspicuously missing from the Lewis speech was any reference to Steelman Tom Girdler, on whom Mr. Lewis usually lavishes his fine talent for invective. Reason: on the advice of Columbia Broadcasting lawyers he deleted his sulphurous remarks about Mr. Girdler.* Also toned down were some of the phrases about Governor Davey, whose militiamen broke the strike in Ohio. Roared Labor Lion Lewis: "The steel puppet, Davey, is still Governor of Ohio, but not for long. I think, not for long...
...South Carolina, a dance was launched which promised to give Southerners more scope for shining than they had ever enjoyed before. It was called "The Big Apple." A party of students had seen Negroes cavorting through its steps in the "Big Apple Night Club," a onetime synagog in Columbia, had given the name to the dance and practiced it secretly for their prom. By last week the Big Apple was gaining currency which, but for the fortunate fact that it is too strenuous for mature ballroom dancers, threatened to make it a national menace like the Charleston...