Word: hooper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hooper Bay: I wrote you about Esther Smith's female trouble. She says a wound is still giving her trouble. Now she's pregnant. Can you recommend anything? Over...
...Meyer has put in 40 years as a specialist in bird and animal diseases, most of the time at the University of California's Hooper Foundation for Medical Research, of which he is director emeritus. There he developed an effective way of keeping parakeets free of the psittacosis virus by frequent injections of chlortetracycline (Aureomycin). But the injection method was costly and impractical for most budgie owners. Backed by Manhattan's Hartz Mountain Products Corp. (bird feeds and medications), Dr. Meyer spent three more years finding an effective way to impregnate the birds' feed with the antibiotic...
...Briggs will give the Crimson one of the stronger lines in the Ivy League while Ron Johanson, Sam Halaby, Dick McLaughlin, and Chet Boulris will form a nucleus of the backfield. The problem, as it has been in the past years, will be to replace two good ends, Tom Hooper and John Copeland...
...Horace Hooper, a U.S. book salesman, appeared in Britain, began dealings that led to his buying the Britannica (in 1901). In 1898, he teamed with the Times of London in a hard-sell campaign to hawk the encyclopedia at cut rates with time payments and advertising. A howl arose over the raucous black-type hucksterism in the grey pages of the "Thunderer." Wrote one affronted M.P. to Hooper: "You have made a damnable hubbub, sir, and an assault upon my privacy with your American tactics." But in a few years, Hooper's whooping sold 100,000 sets...
Francis Birch '24, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, feels that the human geography "could be taught equally well either in a department of its own or in the history or government departments." The new developments in geography bear little relationship to physical geography, but "they are closely identified with the social sciences," he said...