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Word: known (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the total effect of the European war on Harvard registration cannot be learned until the final returns are tabulated sometime next week, the fate of one group of students, the holders of fellowships abroad, is already known...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foreign Scholars Kept Here by War | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

...Harvard students are known to have been on board the Athenia when it was sunk, although one undergraduate cancelled his passage at the last minute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foreign Scholars Kept Here by War | 9/22/1939 | See Source »

Oestrogen. One of the few facts known about the polio virus is that it usually enters the body through the delicate mucous membranes of the nose. Five years ago, while studying polio epidemics in Massachusetts and Vermont, Dr. William Lloyd Aycock of Harvard noticed that polio often ran in families, even when brothers and sisters were living far apart. He suspected that children of these susceptible families might have inherited unusually thin nose linings, easily penetrated by the polio virus. So he decided to set up "virus barriers" of tough new cells in the nasal membranes of monkeys by injecting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Clues | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...Today is not a complete failure, Dr. MacLean found some of his findings "shocking." Said he: "It is appalling to discover that there are few, if any, observable differences, in other respects than earning power alone, between the graduates and non-graduates and between those who in college were known as 'good' students . . . and those who were known as 'poor' students. . . . They are culturally much alike: they listen to the same radio programs, read the same magazines, go to the same movies, feel much the same about their jobs and their families and their health, carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: University of Tomorrow | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Born Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili, known as Sosso, then Koba and finally Stalin, the future dictator of Russia was until 1917 an obscure Georgian revolutionary with a talent for intrigue. Souvarine indicates that he practiced even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Background for War | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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