Word: comstocking
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...Michigan the House of Representatives voted down Governor Comstock's plan for state-owned liquor stores, passed a substitute measure allowing "every responsible hotel and merchant" to sell liquor by the package. The Massachusetts House broke a two-day deadlock to pass a measure allowing licensed "taverns" to sell drinks by the glass...
...Lowell: That ought to panic 'em. Do you remember Comstock...
...fall dinner of the National Academy of Sciences, held last night in Lowell House, the Comstock Prize, given every five years to a man who has done outstanding work in the field of Physics, was awarded to Professor Percy W. Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy...
...distinguished scientists from all over the country looked on, Dr. Max Mason, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and chairman of the Comstock Fund Committee, presented Professor Bridgman with a gift of $2,500, given as a recognition of his investigations into the electrical constitution of matter. The prize is awarded "for the most important discovery or investigation in electricity, magnetism, or radiant energy, or to aid investigation in these fields...
...Baker and including Bernard Mannes Baruch, Thomas William Lament and Owen D. Young. Last week the banded seven sent their presidents West, to dine in St. Louis with friends and alumnae. They went in a distinguished phalanx-Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, Marion Edwards Park, Mary Emma Woolley, Ada Louise Comstock, William Allen Neilson, Henry Noble MacCracken and Ellen Fitz Pendleton, and as dinner speaker they produced Pundit Walter Lippmann. Mr. Lippmann, whose wife Faye Albertson went to Boston University, exclaimed he was "almost ashamed" to be obliged to defend higher education for women, which he called a "rather decent overcoming...