Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Biochemical Sciences first appeared in the College catalogue, it was designed primarily as a field in which the undergraduate, with an eye towards medicine could survey the applications of physico-chemical methods to the problems of biology. Today the end remains unchanged, but unfortunately the means of accomplishing that end has not changed, either. Instead of slowly expanding the funds and facilities in the department, the University has left the field rigidly alone. As in previous years a hardworking, well-informed board of tutors forms its nucleus, but organization beyond this is conspicuously lacking. There is only one half...
...House thought $3,154,425,000 would be enough money to fight Depression II by Federal lending & spending. Last week the Senate in its wisdom, after being whipped through several night sessions by Majority Leader Barkley. who wanted this session of Congress to end some day, made an end of arguing. By 60-to-10 it passed a bill 1) rating Depression II as a $3,722,905,000 affair-$568,480,000 bigger than the House thought- 2) giving Franklin Roosevelt almost as free a hand in spending the money as he had asked...
...Roosevelt) was essentially cockeyed. There had been a deal of misinformation about Britain's famed Trade Disputes Act and how it works. So, out of the kindness of his heart, he wished to get some information for the press, and especially for editorial writers and columnists. To that end, a commission would go abroad and eventually report in words of one syllable. As for the Wagner Act. he had said before and he repeated again that the whole subject of labor relations is in a process of evolution and the U. S. has a great deal to learn...
...Robert Rice Reynolds and Representative Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. in their primary contest last week, tantamount to election, for the Democratic Senatorial nomination in North Carolina. Personality and geography won by 92,000 for playful Senator Reynolds. As is customary, the State will again have one Senator from each end. Bailey from the East, Reynolds from the West...
...poems would not present an understandable picture of what he primarily intended to say; but actually he is highly successful in presenting his ideas in a humorous fashion. Outside of one or two of the strange case-histories, which degenerate into vehicles for a pet pun inserted at the end, Mr. Nash has written an excellent, laughable book of lyrical doggerel...