Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduate, moved, wrote in his journal: "When in the course of human events, Nature frowns upon Tradition, then Tradition must give...
...real difficulty in breathing, he would turn bluish and eventually die. This has been known since Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, whom French Revolutionists guillotined* in 1794, named the gas. But the reason has been learned only recently-by C. A. Binger, J. M. Faulkner and R. L. Moore. In the Journal of Experimental Medicine they tell how the thin membrane of the lungs, through which oxygen reaches the blood, becomes swollen. Oxygen cannot pass through; the person practically suffocates...
...School's intention to forward graduate study and research, the library is planned for 250,000 volumes as contrasted with the 80,000 we now possess. The presence of the Sterling Memorial Library in the immediate vicinity of the School will aid in furthering research. The Yale Law Journal, which publishes much of the research done at Yale, will have commodious quarters on the library floor. That floor will also contain a reading room for the entire school and alcoves for graduate students...
...county fairs; but at home his sister, Lucy, four years older, could throw him with ease. The Maxims were a hardy clan. After an elementary study of chemistry at the old Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Hudson went into the printing business, soon invented a color process for the Evening Journal of Pittsfield, Mass. This newspaper was the first in the U. S. to print a daily edition in colors...
...true that one American in Hankow was spat upon during the troublous times in January, and it is possible that your reporter has erred in confusing this incident with the one recorded in your journal. But, although there is no doubt an implied insult in the act of expectoration upon one's person, yet surely this is a matter less grave than the flinging of dung, at least so far as the recipient is concerned...