Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years the District of Columbia has permitted divorce for adultery only. Lately Congress passed a new law adding as grounds for divorce desertion for two years, voluntary separation for five years, a prison sentence of two or more years for a crime involving moral turpitude. President Roosevelt, whose ideas on divorce are liberal, signed the bill one afternoon last week...
Pinko, idea-popping Professor Clyde R. Miller of Teachers' College, Columbia, who gives teachers as much advice per year as any man in the U. S., last week advised them what to read to see the news in clear focus. For the "intelligent teacher" he prescribed the New York American (Right Wing), New York Times or Herald Tribune (Centre), Daily Worker (Left Wing), World-Telegram, Post or Sun (school pages). To this he added magazines: New Masses (Extreme Left), Nation or New Republic (Left Centre), American Observer or TIME (facts), America, Commonweal, Christian Century (religion), Social Frontier (progressive education...
...infantile paralysis broke out along tidewater North Carolina. At first the number of cases seemed no more than natural for the season. But the disease crept north and west until an epidemic was undeniable. Last month it moved into Virginia. Fortnight ago it splattered into the District of Columbia (TIME...
...some infantile paralysis all over the country every year. . . . The situation is much better throughout the country, although an increasing prevalence of the disease has been reported from New York, Massachusetts and parts of California. . . . It hasn't been prevalent in northern Virginia close to the District of Columbia, and there seems to be no tendency for the disease to spread up here. We are knocking on wood, of course...
...most electrochemists Columbia University's Colin Garfield Fink is the man who found a practical way to make chromium stick to other metals by electroplating. Plump, grizzled Dr. Fink has done other valuable work electroplating with tungsten and rhenium but he worked longest and hardest with chromium. When he found that sulphate ions from ordinary sulphuric acid in his plating bath would do the trick, automobiles, kitchens and modern furniture began to take on a new appearance...