Word: doned
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Professor Clark has already done pioneer work on the northeastern coast of Australia. In 1913 under the auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, he conducted investigations at Torres Strait and discovered some new significant facts concerning the migration of marine animals to the island continent. Last Spring he was appointed a Research Associate of the Carnegie Institution and granted an appropriation for the coming trip...
...Sunbury Court, Sunbury-on-Thames, England, last week, gathered the High Council of the Salvation Army. Their faces were dolorous for they were going to depose General Booth. They had done it once before and it had done no good (TIME, Jan. 21). This time they meant to mean business...
Said President Angell: "The Institute will foster no fads and hold no briefs for theories except those which grow out of thorough scientific investigation. It is believed by those organizing the Institute of Human Relations that the specialization which followed the important scientific discoveries of the last century has done much to advance man's knowledge of human life and the technique for dealing with special phases of it, but that the time has now come for drawing together this knowledge and applying it to the best advantage of mankind as a whole. Man himself must...
Some of the country's more potent oilmen met at St. Louis, last week, to see what could be done about the overproduction, from which their industry has long been suffering (TIME, Dec. 17). Oklahoma operators agreed to cut production from 700,000 barrels a day to 650,000. Meanwhile, however, Texas and California oil fields continued on an unlimited production basis. Unless a national agreement covering all oil fields is reached it would appear that regional agreements can effect no major improvement. Present U. S. production is approximately 2,690,000 barrels a day and wildcatting (opening...
Composer Thomson is 33, a native of Kansas City who was educated at Harvard and has lived since 1925 in Paris. His purpose in choosing a text done in Gertrude Stein's way was, he says, to concentrate all attention on the linguistic problems by getting rid of all meaning...