Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...physicians who practice a lifetime in the U. S., 40% die incapacitated and without money.* Therefore, the Physicians' Home, Inc., began a drive last week to establish a home for aged, indigent physicians. Dr. Charles H. Mayo of Rochester heads the committee of sponsors. The first unit of the home was started four years ago' at Caneadea...
...Orleans, delegates to the American Railway Association's annual convention last week discussed the use of radio communication in their business. It will soon be introduced on freight and passenger trains to establish constant communication between the conductor and brakemen, and the engineer. The present methods are steam valve signals (on passenger trains), and arm-waving from freight cabooses...
These characteristics seem to show that contemporary literature has thus far failed to establish standards for itself: an indication that however much its spirit may resemble that of another period, twentieth century literature is still in a transitional stage...
Under this agreement, Harvard, Yale and Princeton agree to submit to a committee composed of the chairmen of their athletic boards all debatable questions affecting their relations with one another, and through this agreement the three universities hope to improve conditions and to establish intercollegiate athletics more securely in the proper position as valuable elements in a wholesome college life...
...certain American doctor believes that he has discovered a means of ascertaining the weight of the brains of living human beings by taking certain measurements of the heads. He is now asking the government to establish him in a laboratory at Washington where he may do further research work. Part of his program would include an examination of the heads of Senators and Representatives, after which he might send a record of their brainweights to their constituents...