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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William H. Vanderbilt's recent success in finding out by means of X-ray that she would have twins- (TIME, Feb. 16). Hereafter Lloyd's will ensure against twins, triplets or other multiple births at the new high rate only if a policy is sought in earliest stages. "Much of our business of this character," said Lloyd's spokesman, "comes from the United States. We write these policies as an accommodation to clients, not as part of our regular business...
...land. About the same number of institutions broadcast over commercial stations. Year ago an Advisory Committee on Education by Radio, appointed by Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, reported that 15.2% of all the Nation's broadcasting "appeared" to have an educational purpose. One of the earliest to broadcast was the University of Iowa, which began in 1914, long before radio telephony was perfected. Now many an institution, mostly in the Middle and Far West, gives courses ranging from Low German (University of South Dakota) to Astronomy (Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio). Some of the courses...
...William Lowndes Yancey, pre-Civil WarRepresentative from Alabama, one of the loudest and earliest U. S. secessionist...
...anyone had seriously suggested in the House of Commons that Tim Healy was destined to become His Majesty's Representative in Ireland, laughter would have shaken the chandeliers. Timothy Michael Healy was born in Bantry, County Cork, in 1855, son of the local poorhouse guardian. His earliest memories* were of creaking farm carts marked with rude white crosses, piled high with corpses of the famine on their way to common burial in the lime pits. These were not memories to make any boy a loyal British citizen. At the age of 14 he had taught himself shorthand...
This identity of religion and medicine goes back to man's earliest thought. The Babylonians had no doctors as such. Nor for a long time did the Egyptians. And it was a long time before some of the priests of Aesculapius set up a separate medical guild outside the temple walls on the Island of Cos, and a longer time before the guild admitted laymen. Hippocrates (400-359 B. C.) was the Father of Medicine. His medicine was pragmatic, had nothing to do with theology...