Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that mean the denial of patronage to Dixiecrats? Let's wait, the President said, and see how the thing works out. In one respect it had worked already; Truman had passed up crusty old John Rankin's man for postmaster in Columbus, Miss. There was nothing to be gained by buttering up Rabble-rouser Rankin...
Extracurricular. In Columbus, Ohio, Dr. John F. Cuber, former Director of Ohio State University's Marriage Counseling Clinic, was sued for divorce on grounds of neglect...
...tartly recommended that the application be turned down. He said the road should be a profitable operation, but was actually trying to lose money. At Morenci, it had allowed its tracks to be torn up and given its right of way to the New York Central. (The owner, a Columbus scrap-metal firm, said it had been ordered out for want of a franchise.) The owners' real object, said the examiner, was to go out of business so that its trackage, bought for only $33,-450 in 1933, could be sold as scrap...
Help from a Frog. The doctors were deeply interested in a simple test for pregnancy, presented by the White Cross Hospital of Columbus, Ohio and Denison University of Granville, Ohio. It involved no new scientific principles, but was an improved application of old ones. Tests using rabbits are slow, may take two days; frogs or toads imported from South America or South Africa are expensive ($4 to $10 apiece). Urine from a pregnant woman injected into a common male leopard frog (Rana pipiens) causes emission of spermatozoa. The test has also proved valuable for finding out whether, in doubtful cases...
...House and Arlington, Virginia; Socist Affairs Committee Chairman, Student Council, WHRV, PBH. James E. McKittrick of Kirkland House and Brookline; House Squash, Tennis, Baseball, Varsity Squash Captain. Forbes H. Norris, Jr. of Winthrop House and Wincheater; Varsity Swimming, Undergraduate Athletic Council, Engineering Society. John Weodard of Winthrop House and Columbus, Ohio; Winthrop Dance Committee, Winthrop Debate Team, Winthrop Glee Club...