Word: great
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the issue of Philippine independence-an issue raised by the late William Jennings Bryan in 1900 and a Democratic ideal almost realized by the late, great Woodrow Wilson-should turn up as a by-product of a tariff debate might appear a matter of astonishment. But the Philippines and the Tariff have one thing in common-Sugar. Senator King's Utah is a great beet sugar State. Senator Broussard's Louisiana is a great cane-sugar State. The Senators did not argue about imperialism, about the rights of the Filipino, about the ethical or sentimental aspects...
...William Holland Wilmer, 66, great Johns Hopkins eye specialist and teacher, has cured many a desperate eye affliction. Grateful patients led by Mrs. Henry Breckinridge four years ago gave the university more than $4,000,000 to establish the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute in his honor and under his direction. This week the building was dedicated, unique in that it is the first of its kind to be associated with both a medical school and a general hospital...
Three years ago George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy, Harvard medical men, discovered that liver eaten regularly and in great quantities overcame pernicious anemia. Later their colleague Edwin Joseph Cohn developed an extract to replace bulk liver. To Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis manufacturing druggists, the Harvard men gave the commercial monopoly because methods of manufacture were too delicate for novices to handle. Last year other pharmaceutical houses, in the U. S. and abroad, studied the preparations under Harvard instruction. So last week the Harvard Committee on pernicious anemia announced that good liver extracts were available almost everywhere, but that...
...Humanism's" tenets, described as new, inspiring, scientific, proved to be tangential, vague. "Humanists unanimously agree in rejecting the supernatural. This is the great dividing line between them and all other religions of today. . . . So fundamental is the distinction between supernatural religion and Humanism, that there are those who deny that Humanism is a religion at all. . . . Humanists do not so much desire a new idea of God, as they desire a new idea of man. If Humanists were to make a creed, the first article would be: 'I believe in Man.' . . . Humanists are not only opposed...
Engaged. John Oliver Crane, son of Charles Richard Crane (onetime U. S. Minister to China), onetime Secretary to President Thomas G. Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, brother-in-law of Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakian Minister to Great Britain; and Countess Theresa Martini Marescotti; at Rome...