Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election he was hailed by a happy populace singing Yankee Doodle and Welcome, Mighty Chief. Back-biting and banner-waving came in with Adams and Jefferson. The New Englander was a "Monarchist," the Virginian a "maniac who sympathized with the French Revolution." In 1797 Adams voters paraded to Hail Columbia! and Adams and Liberty! Four years later the Jeffersonians were crying...
...California's Save-the-Red-woods League, $2,500 to Mrs. Stanley Baldwin to buy anesthetics for maternity hospitals. He once persuaded Great Britain to run a smelly motor highway around Grantchester because that village had been the home of Poet Rupert Brooke. He has built two hospitals, Columbia University's $7,500,000 Medical Centre and a $600,000 dispensary for the employes of his family's Southern Pacific Railroad. Like many another philanthropist, he is often accused of giving to circumvent income taxes. Not from proud Edward S. Harkness but from his friends comes...
...reporting Dr. Jelliffe's published rejoinder to Columbia's Neurological Professor Sachs, who had criticized psychoanalysis as "a disruptive . . . mechanism," TIME neither stated nor implied that Dr. Jelliffe spoke from the floor of the New York Neurological Society's meeting. Let Dr. Jelliffe be the final judge as to his fame & fortune.-ED. Hoffman...
...rail from all parts of the nation. To give the affair an international tone, there were also women from Ceylon, Rhodesia, Latvia, 19 other countries, who joined this largest female host ever to descend on Washington. For five days at Constitution Hall and all over the District of Columbia the Country Women had a high old time under the vague, idealistic auspices of promoting "The will to peace...
President McKitterick then took his diethylene glycol to Columbia University pharmacologists, had them experiment. They put a solution of smoke from cigarets containing the new hygroscopic agent under the eyelid of a rabbit. To President McKitterick's delight, it produced less swelling than a solution from cigarets using glycerin and, curiously, less than a solution from cigarets using no hygroscopic agent at all. How much this test really proved is still a matter of debate. A solution of smoke is not smoke, a rabbit's eye is not a human throat and almost nothing is known about...