Word: discoverable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Not until Lynchburg mathematicians explained to the council that in one case the city would have $5,120 in cash and 40 telephones and in the other the city would have $4,000 in cash and 40 telephones did its members discover the fallacy of their greedy vote.
"To report what he found. Said he got tired of waiting for you to come back, and sat down on a pile of leaves. That's how be happened to discover there was something under the leaves. He dug it out and brought it down to the station."
Hope of conquering infantile paralysis first arose in 1910 when Dr. Simon Flexner of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research discovered the virus which causes the disease. He found it in the mucous membranes of the nose and throat, and suspected that it might exist along the olfactory nerve. Not...
Portraits and Prayers, a collection of 58 pieces which date from 1909 to 1933, is pure Stein. A gallery of word-portraits of Stein friends and acquaintances, it is mostly concerned with literary and artistic figures: Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Carl Van Vechten (to whom...
At the Harvard Psycho-Educational Clinic, the eyes of dyslexia subjects are tested to discover which eye is dominant or controlling. Among the examinations is a test involving a stereoscope through which each eye looks at a series of typed numbers or digits. Ordinarily the subject will make a choice...