Word: fuller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stephen Fuller Austin was a wiry little Missouri trader and politician who went down to Texas in 1821 to found, at San Felipe, the first permanent Anglo-American settlement in that raw Mexican territory. His father Moses had dreamed of the project, died before he could carry it through. William Barrett Travis was an impetuous young Alabama lawyer-school-teacher who married one of his pupils, went to Texas to get away from her. Sam Houston, hard drinker and hard fighter, quit the Governorship of Tennessee and drifted to Texas because his aristocratic young wife had left...
Appearing this week, the June issue of the Law Review will contain four articles by eminent authors. "Ought the Doctrine of Consideration to be Abolished from the Common Law?", by Lord Wright, Master of Rolls, is featured. Leslie Craven, Counsel to the Federal Coordinator of Transportation; Professor Warner Fuller of Duke University Law School, Felix Frankfurter; and Dean Charles E. Clark of Yale Law School complete the list...
...narcotics throughout the world is one of the rare activities of the League in which the U. S. takes a willing, effective part. Last week when the League of Nations' Opium Advisory Committee met in Geneva to deplore the state of narcotic affairs, Stuart Jamieson Fuller, U. S. spokesman, rose with special pride to report about the thoroughgoing efforts U. S. citizens are making to discover some drug which deadens pain as effectively as does morphine but creates no morphine-like habit...
...last week this triangular experimenting produced no morphine substitute which the experimenters would certify as non-habit-forming. On the other hand, the work enabled Mr. Fuller to tell the world from Geneva last week that one substitute, desomorphine, for which much had been claimed, has "habit-forming properties even in excess of morphine or heroin...
This system of sections and conference groups would make instruction easier for the section man, and would create interest among those students who are now forced to listen to explanations of material that they have mastered. Also the lower grade man could be given fuller instruction in the basic material which he was not grasped, not being exposed to the extraneous discussion of men of conference rank...