Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stroke, rigging. He developed an eight which defeated Pennsylvania, Columbia, Princeton, Cornell, Harvard. Rowing veterans declared his varsity crew, which Harvard trailed by seven lengths, was one of the great eights of 56 years of racing on the New London Thames. His Freshman and Junior varsity crews won with equal distinction. The result seems to speak with decisive finality in the controversy long standing over the merits of the imported and the native systems...
...pairs of rats, one cancerous, the other healthy. The cancer tissue acted exactly like the positive pole, and the normal rat, the negative, in an ordinary dry-cell circuit He proved that cancerous tissue has an excess of positive charge which may be neutralized by the application of an equal negative charge. This explains why X-ray and radium treatment, in which the alpha or positive rays are screened off by a lead shield, while the beta and gamma rays (negative) are allowed to reach the diseased tissue, have had good results. Colloids of certain elements, such as iodine, sulphur...
...bill providing for equal divorce rights for both sexes was passed by a vote of 257 to 26. The bill now goes to the House of Lords for approval. Under this bill women will no longer be obliged to prove desertion or cruelty in addition to misconduct to obtain a divorce. Thus they are placed on an equal footing with...
...before the printing was finished. A 10,000 edition of 0. Henry was absorbed in Moscow. H. G. Wells War in the Air ran through a 15,000 edition in no time. Besides these many French and German book have been translated and put on the market with equal success...
...findings of the committee, the churches declare than an attempted justification is made on grounds of economic necessity, the shortage of labor and the fact that a shorter shift would force up the price of steel. The strongest argument of the churches is that economic laws "cannot demand an equal position with the laws of justice." The protest concludes: "A further report is due from the Iron and Steel Institute?a report of a very different tenor." How soon the "report of a different tenor" will be issued Is unknown. Meanwhile the cry goes up: "How long, O Lord...