Word: latest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...efforts of the medical fraternity to gain control of the lives (and the deaths) of men. The fact that there were only twenty-two cases of small pox in the entire state of Massachusetts during last year had nothing to do, I suppose, with the proponents of this latest measure. What is the excuse for it? Let those who want to undergo this peculiar form of treatment do so; I, for one, though I am not a Christian Scientist nor anything else which some medical gentlemen might like to accuse me of, do not care to submit to it--especially...
...they should give some space to really worth while causes. If one omits from one's consideration the Boston bean, a disgrace to civilized cookery but possibly a good substitute for bullets in case of another emergency like the Revolutionary War, I know of nothing more offensive than this latest measure...
WITH the inevitable comparison to Pluck and Luck," "Of All Things" and "Love Conquers All" staring it in the face, Mr. Benchley's latest collection of scientific discussions, little home-talks and slightly drunken essays is perilously close to having to take a back seat. But close as the perils may seem, as the plucky reader wends his way through the distinctly mediocre to the unquestionably superb he emerges with the feeling that after all the Benchley tradition has been preserved. The chuckles come as they were no doubt intended to, and here and there may be heard a loud...
THERE are two types of the literary college professor: the stodgy ones who edit, say, the works of George Lillo with compendious notes, of whom all college students have seen far too many specimens, and the sprightly ones who pride themselves on keeping up with the latest vagaries of the inexplicably unscholastic. Stuart, Sherman was one of the best of the second type a man whom Illinois University students revered as if he had been a combination of Doctor Johnson, Barrett Wendell and William Lyon Phelps, and whose directing of the Herald-Tribune Book Review endeared him to that dreadfully...
...remodeled to provide convenient and modern laboratories for the work in mining engineering and in mining geology under the direction of Professors McLaughlin and Graton, and for the work of Professors Sauveur and Wells in metallurgy. Important apparatus and equipment have been added to the metallurgical laboratories, including the latest type of X-ray machine for metallographic investigations...