Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard goodies dusted in the dormitories, wiped the windows, made the beds last week to room properly about 500 foreign physiologists and their families who joined with about the same number of U. S. and Canadian physiologists in the 13th International Physiological Congress. The congressmen met for a first get-together session in Harvard's Memorial Hall's fusty, amphitheatrical Sanders Theatre, with twilight filtering on them through stained glass. William Henry Howell, scholar, researcher and executive, had the honor of being the Congress president. No one grudged him the position for Dr. Howell, 69, director of Johns Hopkins school...
...Toronto, Ont., tens of thousands of sportsfolk and natives last week strained and scrambled to get a look at 45 thickly greased women, some with sketchy swimming suits, some with none, as they dove into the cool waters of Lake Ontario, swam away around a two-mile rectangular course. Before the first lap was circled. Swimmer Vivian Lee Welsh screamed, thrashed, floundered in the water. A large lamprey eel had fastened its horny teeth into her side. Shuddering with fright, writhing with cramps, she was lifted into a Red Cross rescue boat. At the end of the first lap Martha...
...part to get around this legal limitation that bank chains such as First Bank Stock Corp. are formed. A holding company acquires control of several banks, operates them under a unified policy. The bank or banks at the head of the chain act as correspondents and depositories of the reserves of the members, all of which retain their individual identity. The important differences in practice are these...
...only seen an ordinary smithy cannot imagine the anvil chorus when the workshop of the gnomes is operating at capacity, so one who has seen an ordinary kitchen has no idea of what the operations will be in such a kitchen as that newly erected in Chicago. To get the full picture in advance, one must go to Camden, see the manicurist who inspects the fingernails of 4,000 workers, see the herds of living turtles weighing 200 or 300 Ibs. apiece brought up from the Caribbean to make a special brand of soup that retails for $2 a quart...
Hallelujah (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Before the end of this picture you get the idea that King Vidor, who wrote and directed it, does not know much about Negroes but that he has guessed and reasoned out a lot. His story, simple yet sophisticated, does not go as deep into the way a black man's mind works as, for instance, Eugene O'Neill went in Emperor Jones. It is a white man's comment on the relationship between sex and religion, a comment in which sympathy and emotion replace the irony so easy to this kind...