Word: columbia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Trends toward the organization of large medical and health centres, sickness insurance and possibly state medicine," observed Isabel Maitland Stewart, Columbia University's professor of nursing education, "probably mean fewer free-lance nurses and more organizations in groups, fewer de luxe nurses catering to the wealthy and more serving the needs of the common people, fewer nurses for the sick and more working on the preventive end of the job." Despite the deadly seriousness of their meetings, the 10,000 nurses in Los Angeles last week enjoyed some diversions. United Air Lines offered a stewardess job to the graduate...
...split into two separate parts, (a retirement act and a companion tax measure), in the hope that each would pass court muster alone and together put railway pensions into effect. Last week, in a test case brought by Alton Railroad Co., Associate Justice Jennings Bailey of the District of Columbia Supreme Court declared the two parts "inseparable," outlawed both on the ground that the tax law sought to collect revenue not to defray general government expenses but to benefit one class-"a purpose which the Supreme Court has held not within the domain of Federal Government...
...college crew in the U. S. They have to go East to prove it. Last week, after Washington's junior varsity and freshmen had beaten the East's best, seven varsities pulled out on the calm Hudson to row four miles down stream. Of the Eastern crews-Columbia, Cornell, Navy, Penn and Syracuse-Cornell, heaviest in the race, looked best, but the two Westerners were favorites. In their own regatta, at Seattle last April, Washington had beaten California by three lengths but that was at three miles. California had a precedent to uphold. Its crews were Poughkeepsie winners...
Dutchess County farmers, watching from the plateau on the East side of the river, saw Navy jump off to a quick start, then yield the lead to California. Urchins in rowboats at the two-mile mark saw Navy and California battling for the lead with Columbia third. The yacht flotilla at the finish shrieked wildly as the first shell slid across the line. It was Washington's- whose smart Coxswain Bob Moch had timed a long sprint perfectly through the last mile-with California a length and a half behind, Navy third, and a boatload of Columbia sophomores fourth...
...Franz Boas, who retires this year from the faculty of Columbia University where he served for 40 years, is noted for his work as (1 a physicist, 2 a surgeon, 3 an anthropologist, 4 a chemist, 5 a radiologist...