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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provitamin -that is, the product which, when the fruit ripens, develops into the vitamin. I found that it was identical with what the chemists call narkotin. . . . Having arrived at this conclusion, my next task was to find a mechanical process to deal with narkotin, which proved to be very difficult to deal with, because it simply disappeared in storage...
...succeeding years Helen Gould endeavored to better her father's reputation. This was difficult; but her almost angelic piety, against the crass background of rich Manhattan 20 years ago, almost accomplished it. Today Mrs. Shepard has only a few millions. She has given away many: to hospitals, to educational institutions, to the New York Hall of Fame, to Spanish-American and World War funds. Every week, applications for money come in to her busy secretaries. Simply, almost dowdily dressed, Mrs. Shepard goes out seldom socially (and then in an outmoded automobile) and occupies herself with what may be called...
...odes, sonnets in accepted tradition, lyrics in free form make up the bulk of it. Robert Hillyer in a foreword speaks of the author's "delicacy of feeling and multiplicity of interests," and of a "technique which was already a performance." "The Dunes" shows his skilful handling of a difficult metre, the translations show that he could catch with accuracy the spirit of the original. One of the translations of Horace, that of the Second Epode, was awarded the Sargent Prize...
...large amount of definite technical material on business practice which the School must fit into its two-year course naturally makes difficult any study of social evils caused by the industrial order. Dean Donham's suggestion for a third year course for further training and research in social problems relating to business deserves attention. Such a course, which might "appraise the major economic problems and their underlying tendencies in order to determine a sound basis for social planning," would give the Business School a unique opportunity for intelligent leadership in the nation's economic life...
Discussing the Manchurian situation, Professor Kennelly said: "Judging from the attitude in Japan, one would find it difficult to believe that anything out of the ordinary were happening, for the Japanese people speak very little about the situation, the whole affair being in the hands of the government, which is all-powerful...