Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Isaac Margolis Barnett of Far Rockaway, New York...
...bobs sex determination again (TIME, July 9), and will bob up until it is settled. Now Dr. Isaac Fried, CzechoSlovakian savant, after extensive experiments in Prague and under Professor Devraignes in Paris, asserts that he can diagnose the sex of a child four months before birth. His method is based on a blood reaction similar to the Wassermann test, but no further details are vouchsafed. The French Academy of Medicine appointed a committee of inquiry. Dr. Fried is probably a reputable scientist, but cranks innumerable have flourished on this same subject. Vide Dr. Alzamon Ira Lucas, "Psy.D., Ph.D.," of Rochester...
...court composed of four Americans and three Filipinos sentenced one Isaac Perez, Municipal Secretary of the town of Pilar, to two months and one day in prison for sedition. Perez was tried for having declared that the Filipinos should behead General Wood with a bolo because the Governor opposed Philippine independence. Two Filipino judges dissented...
...leading article of the first issue is by Isaac R. Pennypacker and is entitled The Lincoln Legend. It shows that until about 40 years before Abraham Lincoln entered public life, the Lincolns were a wealthy and distinguished family of ironmasters who spoke the king's English. By an accident?the fact that Lincoln's grandfather was killed by Indians when Lincoln's father was only six years old? the President was born poor. The article then goes on to argue that Lincoln was a poor general, none too good a judge of men, a shrewd politician...
...chief counsel for Ward is ex-Justice Isaac N. Mills, formerly of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court. He is perhaps the most respected member of the Westchester County...