Word: doned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Lewis Stimson, pillar of the New York Bar, was startled one day in 1919 to learn that his sister-in-law had been clapped into a Washington jail. She had, of course, done nothing disgraceful. "Votes for women" was a fashionable as well as a militant movement then and Mrs. Elizabeth ("Lil") White Rogers had only been doing what a number of other strong-minded ladies then thought necessary and honorable-picketing Woodrow Wilson in the White House. Dr. John Rogers, famed Manhattan surgeon, college mate (Yale '87) of Mr. Stimson (Yale '88), went and bailed...
...Laboratory of Educational Psychology on the processes and mechanisms of reading. Defects in reading may result form wrong habits established in early years and may prevent the attainment of normal speed in reading throughout life. Slow reading is a tremendous handicap in study at every level. The work already done in this subject at the Graduate School of Education promises to lay bare the causes of difficulty in reading and provide meant for at least a partial correction...
...backwards in their efforts to prove it not so. At any rate, it can now be said, with the movie critics that this is not for the kiddies. If you want to find out about man's relation to the ape look up "evolution" in the encyclopedia and be done with...
With this sort of material the Club did very acceptably. It would be quibbing to find fault with the work of Mr. Wallstein, whose characterization of a prosperous M. P. who loses for a day his carefully attained sense of value, is very finely done. Miss Hill and Miss Crocker, in the leading feminine roles, have little acting to do, but do it gracefully. Mr. Jackson and Mr. Joyce portray satisfactorily the spineless characters they represent; Mr. Meyer is more successful, in a more positive part...
...Ford who is vice president of the Technical Advisory Corporation will undertake the investigation of the subject "What Zoning Has Done to Limit the Height of Bulk Buildings Especially in Commercial and Apartment Districts, and What Further Limits Should Be Placed on Building Height and Form...