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...CORNELIUS THE CENTURION was established a century ago to serve the military post on Governor's Island. Today...
...Problem. Said Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads. research director of Manhattan's Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases, after study of the Graham-Wynder findings: "The underlying medical question is settled. But as so often happens, we now have a new problem with social implications-how to organize and pay for the research which will show us how to remove the mouse-cancer agent from tobacco, or render it inert, and also to track down the many other factors which may be contributing to the increase in lung cancer...
...prospects of a cure for cancer, Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads. director of Manhattan's famed Memorial Center (TIME, June 27, 1949), told a congressional hearing: "We can look forward to something like a penicillin for some cancers, and I hope within the next decade...
...books he savagely dissected early American capitalism-in a predatory era when Cornelius Vanderbilt could write to his associates: "Gentlemen, you have undertaken to ruin me. I will not sue you, for law takes too long. I will ruin you." Veblen took a closer look at the people Marx called the ruling class, and produced a new label: the leisure class. The businessman, to Veblen, was a saboteur of the economy, because instead of just sticking to making goods, he tried to regulate output in order to make more money. Eventually, thought Veblen, the engineers would inherit the world...
...Cornelius Krieghoff fought for the U.S. against the Indians, then went over the hill into Canada and became Quebec's most popular artist. Influenced by Currier & Ives, he produced a rich record of mid-19th century life in the snowy north...