Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Using guines pigs, for example, Professor Frederick L. Hisaw has discovered relaxin, a chemical now known to exist in the human body. His search started several years ago when scientists discovered, much to their chagrin, that pocket gophers were physically incapable of having children. The female pelvis was much too small...
...uniforms at Dahlgren Hall, Ensign Wesley Anthony Brown, U.S.N., got his diploma, joyfully tossed his cap in the air with those of his 789 classmates. His mother, plump Mrs. Rosetta Brown, who had pressed pants to help him through high school, watched proudly from the galleries. Rear Admiral J. L. Holloway Jr., the Academy superintendent, greeted her at the June Week garden party. Brown and his Annapolis girl friend, Sylvia Hicks Johnson (see cut), an undertaker's secretary, danced together at the class farewell ball...
...skillfully delivered an eight-pound baby at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Dr. George L. Hoffman declared: "Color television is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen...
...pilgrims had come from all over the world. Aloof, tight-lipped Bishop Giuseppe López Ortiz of Tuy in western Spain headed a delegation of 35 from the saint's own country. There were Germans, French, Italians, Filipinos, Irish, Canadians and one priest from India. In the U.S. delegation was energetic, ruddy Most Rev. Thomas J. McDonnell, Auxiliary Bishop of New York. The Japanese turned out in crowds that jammed streets, parks and station platforms. Non-Christians sang hymns along with their shinja (believer) brothers. Pious deputations waited at railway stations until late at night to catch...
...morning session, presided over by Marvin Bower '30, chairman of the committee. the alumni heard L. R. Boulware, vice-president of the General Electric Co., suggest city-wide courses in economics for adults. Bowlware also attacked proposed changes in the Taft-Hartley law and declared that the pressure on Congressmen to change the act was not truly representative of the will of the people...