Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Association for the Advancement of Science at Atlantic City last week (see p. 48) found some tepid thrills. First there was the sight of high-spirited, mouse-breeding Professor Maud Slye of Chicago smiling wryly at high-spirited, mouse-breeding Dr. Clarence Cook Little of Bar Harbor. The smiling apparently ended 25 years of bickering over the inheritability of cancer (TIME, Nov. 16). To no one's surprise she popped up with her everlasting credo: "I breed out breast cancers. I don't think we should feel so hopeless about breeding out other types. Only romance stops...
...later became Prime Minister. Only one member of the Class has caught a Giant Panda. We have only one Weather Man who advocates the "frontal method" (three dimensions) over the "surface method" (two dimensions). In all these years, only one member has been elected Village Clerk of Hewlett Harbor...
...view the disadvantage of air transport is its speed. Bugs which would die in an eight-day voyage can survive a two-day flight. Last week, in the December number of the Uni-versity of California Alumni Monthly, an article called Doctors, Insects and Air Routes explained a new harbor hygiene against inbound contagion. To halt immigration of any more such pests as the corn-borer, Japanese beetle or red scale, the U. S. Public Health Service insists that all planes from South America or Asia must be sprayed. Pan American Airways conscientiously sprays its Pacific Clippers with a pyrethrum...
This year that dominant moppet, Rachael Low, 13, her sister Prudence, 15, and their mother accompanied Low on a banging, booming holiday. First shots were in the harbor of Lisbon, where two Portuguese war boats fired live projectiles in a brief mutiny (TIME, Sept. 21 ) before the Lows sailed on to South America, stopped at Buenos Aires while persons unknown threw a bomb at the British Embassy without much effect. Because the bearded Low is definitely pink in his politics, Britons expected him to be kind with his pencil to President Roosevelt in Washington. Last week, with Low just back...
...world responded. In 1933, 161 deep-sea ships cleared Albany. Last year 255 ships dropped down the river to the sea, 625 barges plied up & down the deepened and renovated canal. Total volume of Albany's 1935 harbor traffic: 500,000 tons, chiefly grain, oil, wood pulp, canned goods. About 90% of the world's ships can use Albany's harbor. Latest figures of the U. S. Shipping Board list Albany as eleventh in foreign imports, 21st in total foreign trade...