Word: lasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sloane Coffin to officiate at a communion service in an Episcopal church (TIME, Nov. 25), think Episcopalians have no right to call themselves Protestants. Many high-church Episcopalians agree with them, dislike the name Protestant, would like to change their church's name to something like American Catholic.* Last week the P. E. high-church weekly, The Living Church, printed an article by Dr. Frederick Henry Lynch, Congregationalist minister, editor of Christian Work and Evangelist, entitled, "Is the Protestant Episcopal Church a Protestant Church...
...times, an adult human 16 to 24 times,* a horse 6 to 10 times. Miss Maclntyre breathes only 3 to 5 times a minute. In that respect she is phenomenal. Doctors read about her with wonder five years ago when she was a student at Mount Holyoke College. Only last week did the general public learn of her strange case...
Paris correspondents with nothing much to do sauntered around to the dingy Hospice de la Salpétrière last week and dug a choice little story out of Professor Jean Antonin Gosset, famed remover of the prostate glands of Georges Clémenceau (1912) and Raymond Poincaré who left the hospital and strode spryly home last week (TIME...
Modest to the point of bashfulness, Professor Gosset explained to last week's newsmen that his appendix exploit was merely a classroom demonstration of two maxims he tries to impress upon all his students...
Currently there are slightly less diphtheria, infantile paralysis, measles and typhoid in the U. S. than at this period last year, and slightly more meningitis, scarlet fever. Smallpox also has increased considerably in 1929. But very few U. S. people now die of smallpox. During the last week of November, when the U. S. Public Health Service last compiled statistics, there was not one smallpox death reported in the entire country. At the same period there were 676 deaths from influenza and pneumonia, much less than last year...