Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House: > Passed a $46,915,207 District of Columbia supply bill, sent it to the Senate...
...daughter. He announced last week that he would presently re-establish himself as a resident of Grinnell, la., which he left 27 years ago after graduating from the college there. A Hopkins from Iowa would be much more available politically in 1940 than a Hopkins from the District of Columbia or New York, but his friends swore that his stated reason for replanting his roots in corn country was the true one: to give his daughter Diana, aged 6, a permanent home, permanent friends. If Mr. Hopkins goes on working in Washington, transplanted Diana will be fatherless most...
Metallurgists have tried to produce colored stainless steel for years. One of the first patents, issued to Columbia University's crack Electrochemist Colin Garfield Fink in 1933, has never been industrially developed. Researchers of Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp. are reported to have hit on a promising technique, but they are keeping it under wraps for the present. Mr. Bach, skeptical of patent protection, kept mum about his method for quite a while...
...sociologists is Robert Staughton Lynd, Princeton '14. Dr. Lynd is best known for the monumental studies he and his eminent wife made of the town of Muncie, Ind. and described in Middletown (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937). Since he wrote Middletown, Dr. Lynd has taught sociology at Columbia University and brooded on the fact that mankind, busily using the knowledge of natural scientists to make dangerous machines, remains in different to the knowledge of social scientists. Looking upon a chaotic world, Professor Lynd decided that it was a great tragedy that "men build their cultures by huddling together...
Regular shortstop Keyes suffered a charley-horse when he crashed into Chief Boston at the plate Thursday before vacation, and played under a handicap in his sole appearance afield. He is expected to be close to top shape by the Columbia game Saturday...