Word: interred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...genuine delight and excitement that all of them have looked forward for months to the dedication this week of a modern motor highway reaching nearly a quarter of the 3,200 miles from the U. S. to Panama and filling in one more great gap in the long-awaited Inter-American Highway...
...greatest highway project in the world, the Inter-American, if ever completed, will stretch some 12,000 miles from Alaska to Argentina. First proposed at the Fifth International Conference of American states in Santiago, Chile in 1923, the road immediately fired the imagination of the delegates, was undertaken after enthusiastic endorsement by subsequent conferences and by Presidents Coolidge and Hoover. When the U. S. Congress appropriated $50,000 in 1929 for a reconnaissance survey to start the work in Central America, the first Inter-American Highway Congress was held in Panama, created a commission which has driven the work ahead...
...Conant, in his Tercentenary address, spoke of the necessity of "pruning knowledge", that is throwing out irrevalent material keeping only the essentials, crossing inter-departmental barriers, and getting a broader, general view of the world today. The President has planned new "roving professors", unattached to nay Department, to carry out this pruning. This plan is to be applauded and backed as being one which will tend to counteract the emphasis placed on research and scholarship...
...Inter-House Athletic Committee will meet tomorrow to check over the scores and to award officially the All Round Trophy, given by Percy S. Straus...
...majority of my alcoholic women stated they disliked the taste of liquor and felt that the main thing to be obtained from drinking was a lessening of their own tension and an increasing of their sociability. . . . Women drunkards have a strong attachment to their mothers, strong narcissism and strong inter-tension, making social contact difficult. . . . The alcoholic woman is always striving for social recognition and fears this will not be given. She experiences feelings of sexual inferiority and projects it in hallucinations to the outside world."-Dr. Frank Joseph Curran, Manhattan...