Word: frequenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Influenza and its frequent herald, the common cold, are probably due to infection by a submicroscopic virus. Bacteriologists have not understood the exact nature of viruses, particularly whether they are living or dead substances. Because he proved that viruses are lifeless molecules, the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week awarded Dr. Wendell Meredith Stanley of the Rockefeller Institute a $1.000 prize (see p. 39). Next day Dr. Stanley went to bed stricken by influenza...
Bitter and frequent is the complaint that the Securities & Exchange Commission tends to try its cases in newspapers before they are tried in courts. A crackdown from SEC begins with published charges based on what SEC "has reason to believe and does believe." Invariably the crackdown makes headlines, while the routine denial of the unhappy crack-downee is buried at the bottom of the column. Particularly irritated by this procedure because the firm was just getting on its feet after a severe Depression deflation was Otis & Co. Cyrus ("The Great") Eaton's Cleveland banking house which was charged last...
...Frequent in her responses were spontaneous exclamations. To one question, as to whether she hoped her sisters would follow her footsteps, she answered first that she would like to see them "walk out" in front of her, added with disarming frankness, "What an asinine thing to want to know...
...Seattle, when a pedestrian is hit by a car. shyster lawyers send runners to the victim to tell him they saw the accident and recommend that their employers be retained for a damage suit. In New Orleans ambulance-chasers frequent police stations, are so friendly with policemen that they ride to accidents in patrol cars. In San Francisco in 1933, four doctors and five other employes of an emergency hospital were suspended for tipping off attorneys about accidents. In New York City, after insurance companies paid $9,449,916 in automobile injury claims in 1935, an Accident Fraud Bureau...
Planning early and frequent money and morale-raising swings around the country. Chairman Hamilton will make his headquarters in Washington. Kansas acquaintances do not expect Mrs. Hamilton to join him there, soon or ever. For his full-time services, the Committee decided to pay $15,000 per year, plus $10,000 for "base expenses." Cracked Insurgent Republican William Edgar Borah: "That, as I understand it, is the customary salary of receivers...