Word: consistency
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leading article was on New York, Wonder City of the World. Others were: Campaign to Reduce Auto Accidents; The Alaska Problem; The Market?Past, Present, Future; Playgrounds of the United States (by Hubert Work); Pension Office Will Speed Up; /Suggestions on Women's Apparel. The illustrations consist of 35 photographs of New York City, photographs of two authors of articles, six photographs of National Parks (including Old Faithful Geyser, Yosemite Falls, the Grand Canyon and the giant trees of California) and three fashion plates. Its contributors include Major General A. W. Greeley, Mrs. Fiske (actress), Albert B. Cummins (Senator), Edwin...
...Funk-Brentano of Paris is credited with the discovery of new methods of "twilight sleep" (painless childbirth) differing from the scopolanium method now widely in use. They consist of injections of extract from the pituitary gland (a small oval body attached to the brain near the optic nerve) combined with progressive doses of chloroform. The woman retains a degree of consciousness and speech, but is not aware of pain. Eight hundred deliveries have been made by these methods at the Boucicault Hospital...
...United States "prohibition navy" is rapidly undergoing evolution to fit it for the task of catching rum runners on the Atlantic. It is soon to consist of twelve vessels; four revenue cutters, the Seneca, Seminole, Gresham and Manhattan, and eight speed boats now on the ways which will act as scouts...
Fourteen of the Graduate School awards consist of travelling fellowships, to provide for a year of study and travel in Europe, as follows...
...work will be mostly of practical nature but hour lectures will be held every morning in which the day's problems will be explained. The field work in the first half of the course will consist of plane and topographical surveying, levelling, determination of meridian and latitude, and map making, while in the last four weeks problems in railroad construction will be taken up involving preliminary surveys, final location, slope staking, and estimates of quantities and cost...