Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Society of Orthodontists in Manhattan, Elizabeth McDowell, professor of speech at Columbia University, declared that Franklin Roosevelt's broadcasting was of unusual quality because his mouth is "built for sound"-wide jaw, low, wide, not too flat palatal arch, a tongue as wide as the arch. Miss McDowell declined to describe Mrs. Roosevelt's oral acoustics...
Such was one of the questions which Columbia's famed Psychologist Edward Lee Thorndike lately put to 40 unemployed young men and women. The men asked a median price of $260,000,000, the women $1,375,000. Next Professor Thorndike promised them secrecy in their cannibalism. Promptly the men lost their squeamishness, dropped their price to $50,000. The women still wanted $750,000. Finally Dr. Thorndike made the same offers to 24 unemployed men and women over 40. Two-thirds of them flatly refused to practice cannibalism at any price. Professor Thorndike wanted chiefly to find...
Introduced by President Conant, Harold C. Urey, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry this spring and professor at Columbia, will address the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society upon "The Separation of Isotopes" this evening at 8 o'clock in Huntington Hall, the Rogers Building, 491 Boylston Street, Boston...
...follow Columbia's trail...
Undefeated in its four games of the season, the Varsity tennis team meets Amherst this afternoon. The Crimson has shut out Columbia, Brown, and Holy Cross 9-0, and edged out Pennsylvania 5-4 Saturday...