Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lament, the wife of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss, Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Flagler, Sherwood Eddy, Norman Thomas, Mrs. Stanley McCormick, Harry Emerson Fosdick. . . . The conferees deplored the fact that there are only 29 centres in the U. S. where birth control information is given- four places in California (Los Angeles, Oakland, Pasadena, San Francisco), one in Colorado (Denver), eight in Illinois (all in Chicago), one in Maryland (Baltimore's Bureau of Contraceptive Advice, only one outside of New York using an unmasked name), one each in Detroit, Minneapolis and Newark, ten in New York...
...resistance of a continuous electrical conductor. Great grappling hooks groped for the cables on the sea floor. Healthy, temperate mechanics- spliced the broken wires to restore the intercourse of the hemispheres. Every half minute an earthquake occurs somewhere on earth. Great ones powerful enough to destroy towns happen about four times a year. Two especially sensitive zones exist: i) along the almost continuous stretch of the Alps, Caucasus and Himalaya mountains; 2) along the whole mountainous circle of the Pacific. Often shaken Italy is in the first zone, California and Japan in the second. Eastern North America, along the Appalachian...
...second CRIMSON competition of the year will get under way tonight at 7 o'clock, when candidates for the four departments of the paper will gather in the CRIMSON Building, 14 Plympton Street...
...Coolidge employs four means of studying the skulls: the voluminous literature on the subject, x-ray pictures, scale photographs, and comparative measurements. He devotes the major part of his study to the skull, as is the custom in scientific research. He studied over 400 of them besides examining many hides and skeletons which also show great variation and are of accessory value in classification...
...introduced in zoology a system of photographing skulls against a scale background, a method previously employed by anthropologists. He has a series of over four hundred scale pictures, taken with the assistance of the following museums: Berlin Museum, Hamburg Museum, Oslo Museum, Anatomy Museum at Amsterdam, Congo Museum at Tervueren. Lord Bothschild's museum at Tring, Major PowellCotton's Museum, Dr. Duckworth's collection, and the Museum of Comparative Zoology...