Word: developers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believed that the older endowed universities and colleges have a special duty to perform in offering their facilities to students from every part of the country. In this way they will not only do their part in aiding the whole of our democratic society to develop the talent of each generation, but they will help to keep the country's culture from becoming sectional. Sectionalism presents dangers from which the country must continually be guarded. It is therefore essential that there shall be a few truly national institutions of higher learning. Since the paramount duty of any tax-supported university...
...sweep of ocean where Spain's enemies concentrated their attempts to destroy her power. Philip Ainsworth Means's imposing history of the Spanish Main consequently includes colonial problems as well as accounts of pirate raids, unfamiliar items on the conquest of Peru, discussions of Indian psychology and developments in European politics that affected life in the new world. Beginning with a broad description of "America on October 10, 1492," it gives a fresh account of the impact of the discovery on Europe, where in all ministries carefully-made plans were rendered irrelevant, where bewildering and unprecedented problems arose...
...University of Chicago, Freshman Alan J. Kringel, 18, of Woodmere, N. Y., invented a chemical wrinkle-remover from animal blood, scowled for a month to develop a wrinkle, applied wrinkle-remover to wrinkle and cried, "It works...
...Because of the formidable nature of this operation, an effort is now being made to develop a modification of the splanchnic nerve resection," said Dr. Adson who explained that he removes only a section of the twelfth pair of ribs, cuts a few handy sympathetic nerves, excises a chunk from each adrenal gland...
Hospitalized, Major Hill died without regaining consciousness; the others, including Heroes Harman & Giovannoli, were expected to recover. The plane, which cost Boeing some $500,000 to develop and had only the day before received its design patent, was a total loss...