Word: great
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when, the late, great Teddy Roosevelt pranced around the arena at Cheyenne's Frontier Days celebration, rodeos were a novelty even in his wild & woolly West. Today rodeos are a big-time U. S. sport. They annually attract twice as many spectators as auto racing or track. In Texas rodeos are chasing baseball off the sandlots. They have a governing organization (Rodeo Association of America), a cowboys' union (Turtle Association),* a major-league circuit and a national champion...
...Ambassador to Germany; and Susan Brownell Anthony II, 25, grandniece of the famed suffragette; in Washington, D. C., four days after it was announced. Mr. Dodd is currently writing the story of his father's experiences in Berlin, Miss Anthony the story of a romance in her great-aunt's life...
...fact a young Turk, by name Mehemed Fehmy Agha. That was ten years ago. Last week PM, the lively little magazine for production managers and art directors, devoted its latest issue to Agha's American Decade. Its "paeans with pictures from colleagues and disciples" demonstrated how great has been, still is Dr. Agha's influence on U. S. publication design...
High over the silver Hudson, in uptown Manhattan, stands a giant's village of towering, cream-brick buildings: Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.* Most extraordinary of the hospitals in this doctors' Mecca is the 14-story Neurological Institute, erected ten years ago through the heroic efforts of late, great Neurologist Frederick Tilney. Last year, after wielding an influence among devoted young neurologists second only to that of famed Harvey Gushing (see p. 60), Dr. Tilney died. As acting director, the trustees appointed modest Dr. Robert Frederick Loeb. Last week, warmhearted, diplomatic Tracy Putnam came down from Harvard to take...
...came to no workaday hospital, devoted to textbook treatment of disease, but to a great temple of experiment, where even sober trustees are fired by the high task of ending body's tyranny over mind, To 45-year-old Dr. Putnam, as to the other bold, competent physicians in the Institute, the study of brain processes and the treatment of brain ills is a "bread-&-butter science." Deeply concerned with detours of nerve paths and battles of brain cells, he knows that a long chain of simple injections, or the sharp bite of a surgeon's knife into...