Word: grafts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sustaining it until its adaption to the present educational conditions has been completed. The trend has been unmistakably in the direction of splitting large educational bodies into smaller, more homogeneous groups; but the academic world is at present extremely leery, and rightfully so, of any attempt to graft the English system in force at Oxford and Cambridge on to our present institutions. American universities are sprung from a different conception of education and must meet the demands of men from far wider spheres and with far more varieties of interest. They must evolve their own adaptations to modern conditions...
...Rudolph never did retire. In 1906 he turned crusader, organized and financed the war against graft in the state and city government. He promised to go on to New York, Chicago, Denver. Bitter were the attacks on his sincerity, his aims. His wife and family were insulted on the street. Son Rudolph replied that he had never voted and vowed he would never hold office. This promise he has kept. He has not yet carried the battle to the East. But he is only...
...Equal also are the color, size and shape of their eyes. Coincidal too were the accidents of Dr. Ben Witt Key, ophthalmologist, knowing both their cases. A sure eye surgeon, and a daring, Dr. Key thought of lifting the thickened cornea from Nordic Ferguson's bad eye and grafting on the peeled ball the good cornea of Jewish Greenblatt's bad eye. The Jew amiably agreed to the graft, the Nordic hopefully received it. And hopefully, with eyes bandaged, they waited for results...
...plan is to elevate a motor concourse above the railroad right-of-way now labelled Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues and commonly, because of accidents, called "Death Avenue." Ramps to the superstructure will occur at 22nd, 44th and 57th Streets. The whole will cost some $13,500,000 (graft excluded). One boom in Manhattan riverside real estate has already occurred recently, on the Harlem River bank around 80th Street, under the leadership of Vincent Astor. The new concourse was expected to carry the boom from east side to west side, all around the town...
...Commonwealth of Pennsylvania last fortnight went an insult to Philadelphia. From Erie, at the farthermost corner of the state, came the announcement that the United Lutheran Church of America would not convene in Philadelphia at the next biennial assemblage (1930). The reason for the snubbing of Philadelphia was the "graft scandals" of recent development. Milwaukee, free of graft scandals, was chosen instead...