Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their interest in chemistry, particularly in medical chemistry, is more personal than philanthropical. Just before the War ended, the Garvan's baby Patricia, a lovely child, developed rheumatic fever following influenza. Some of the best of the country's physicians, drawn into consultation, confessed themselves utterly powerless to save her. She died. Doctors know not yet how to cure rheumatic fever not even its cause. In search of cause & cure of that disease and of a score of others the Garvans are quietly giving their money. A footnote to their unobtrusiveness is the fact that Mr. Garvan...
Vice President Queeney described the "generator" thus: "It consists of an aluminum pot in which is set a nest of stationary thin-curved plates radiating from a central core. The pot is heated by the exhaust from the engine. The fuel is drawn from a standard carburetor through the inside of the pot over the surface of the warm plates, where it is converted into a dry gas and there it passes through the intake manifold into the cylinders...
...Rural districts in the affected territory are supporting the Canadian National; towns and cities are in favor of the Canadian Pacific. Should the threatened railroad war materialize and become a political as well as an economic issue, six Parliamentary seats, including that occupied by Prime Minister King would be drawn into the conflict. So Minister of Railways Charles Avery Dunning has appealed to both roads for some amicable compromise...
...appears from the announcement of President Lowell that Harvard University is definitely committed to the plan of subdividing its undergraduate body into small residential groups, somewhat remotely after the Oxford and Cambridge model. The program has been drawn up, the die is cast, and we shall see what we shall...
...were working in the same field would have a chance to be in frequent communication with each other, an intellectual atmosphere and intellectual discussions would, thus provided with a basis of common interest and knowledge, tend to develop. Some even of the professedly non-students might be drawn into the vortex by mere proximity...