Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago. Pharaohs mined copper in the Sinai Peninsula as early as 3400 B. C. Dr. Barton suavely pointed out that the Sumerians in Babylonia made gold and silver objects as early as 3500 B. C. and more beautiful than anything produced in Egypt until hundreds of years later. Those early Sumerians knew agricultural arts and had a fairly complex social system...
...went from Russel's Collegiate & Commercial Institute in New Haven to Manhattan where he began drawing classical orders under the tutelage of Architect James Renwick for more than six years. This able mentor disciplined his pupil's design sense, his pen and pencil technique, later famed for its own sake. Then Architect Goodhue went to Boston where he soon became the partner of Ralph Adams Cram in a firm (Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson) destined to rank with such partnerships as McKim, Mead & White or Carrere and Hastings. Architect Cram was and is a devout, learned Episcopalian Gothicist, medievalist. Architect...
...Nashville, Tenn., Thomas Overton put a cocklebur marked with a red string in Edwin Woods's automobile, found the bur later on Mrs. Overton's dress, shot Edwin Woods five times, killed...
...There is nothing in this country that makes for its happiness, for the health of the rising generation, or for the health of woman in her later years, comparable to seeing that proper care is taken of her in her confinement. A great physician told me, recently, that if this were done in every case in this country he would close half of the women's hospitals in Great Britain. We have come to the conclusion that the maternity benefit provided by the National Health Insurance Act is not at present being administered to the best possible advantage...
...report was used by the power interests to support their claim that there is little or no interstate transmission of electricity and therefore no Federal problem, calling for Federal investigation and regulation. The report fitted so happily with the tactics of the power interests that there were queries later as to the origin of the study and the explanation of its peculiar limitations. In a Foreword the report states. "In making this study the Bureau had the complete co-operation of the National Electric Light Association... The costs incurred in conducting the survey were defrayed by the Association...