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At the head table in a banquet room of Baltimore's Hamilton Street Club one night last week, a spry, white-haired man of 83 rose, smiling and nodding, to acknowledge the cheers and applause of the guests who had come to honor him. Robert Williams Wood was in...
It was not until 1901 that science began to take notice of Robert Wood. By that time he had studied at Johns Hopkins and at the University of Berlin, had finally settled himself into his life's work in Baltimore. The field that interested him most at the time...
Port Wentworth, Ga. built a new industrial water plant to attract the Southern Paperboard company. Natchez, Miss, "clarified" the state stream pollution law to get the Johns-Manville insulation board plant. In Greenville, Tenn., some schools joined in educating the populace in the art of dairy farming to help the...
Over the past few years, such efforts have brought promising results. This year Johns Hopkins University was able to raise $650,000 from Baltimore businessmen, and nearby Goucher College (for women) was doing almost as well. In its 1940 fund-raising campaign Goucher got only $2,500 from industry-1...
How long has man lived in the Western Hemisphere? The more cautious anthropologists give him 10,000 to 15,000 years. But Dr. George F. Carter of Johns Hopkins thinks this estimate is much too conservative. There is good reason to believe, says Carter, that there were Americans of a...