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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Karl S. Lashley, Research Professor of Neuropsychology, will speak to an open meeting of the Lowell House Scientific Society tonight in the Common Room on "The Functional Significance of Cerebral Localization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL | 1/12/1938 | See Source »

Formerly under-secretary of State, William R. Castle will address the Freshman Class tonight, on "Trouble in the Far East" in the Lower Common Room of the Union at 7:30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN WILL HEAR CASTLE ON "FAR EAST" | 1/11/1938 | See Source »

...claims that this was done by such oldtime pool methods as buying heavily at the close, issuing extravagant statements, using discretionary accounts to create an artificial demand. Reason for raising the price, implied SEC, was that Cord Corp. had underwritten some $2,800,000 in Auburn debentures convertible into common stock at $50 a share. SEC made it clear that E. F. Hutton & Co. as a company was not involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: SEC's Next Round | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...lists words that 1) originated in the U.S. 2) have disappeared in England, or 3) have changed their meaning since emigration from England. Listed in Part III are such everyday words as build (in the sense of "construct"), which was only in literary use in England before it became common coin in the U. S.; bull, bimch, bumper, burial ground, bum, bunkum, boss, bluff (derived from the game of poker), business (meaning an occupation or industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Blood & Thunder-to-Butterfly | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

From this episode, I learned that it is customary, in this course, to measure written assignments by quarto pages of the common 8 1-2 by 11 inch size. The impression seems to prevail that a page is a page for a' that; and the student may use single, double, or even triple space at will and leave margins of a width not prescribed. This permits the number of words to a page to be doubled or to be halved. Having spent all my business life in close contact with authors, editors, literary agents, printers and printers' link, I told...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/6/1938 | See Source »

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