Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ever since doctors and other workers with X-rays discovered that the rays sterilized them (now they protect themselves by aprons of rubber impregnated with lead), they have been chary of X-raying women who might be gravid. It is not always certain that a woman is pregnant. She may be bloated through hysteria or, more usually, have a benign tumor or a cancer. X-rays can help in the diagnosis. X-rays can also destroy the tumor, or the fetus. Radium is also therapeutically destructive. Just what effect radium, or X-rays in their various doses have...
...measured dignity of mind. Its integrity lay in the virtues of extreme loyalty and unassailable courage. It was magnificent in battle, in battle rather than in war. It was, after all, General Lee, Virginia, who led the South; but he had Alabama tigers to lead; men born for fighting, capable of fighting throughout all their long or short lives. They made the four years of the Confederacy possible. Then they too vanished." The scene set, Hergesheimer silhouettes against it nine representative actors: ". . . the eloquent Mr. Yancey; Varina Howell who loved Jefferson Davis all her life; Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard, cast...
...addition, President Lowell said that "the problem of education is to stimulate interest in the mind of the youth and thus lead him to make the proper effort voluntarily and not merely to find for him something he likes, which," he continued, "most often is nothing in particular. All education is self-education, excepting that acquired mechanically, and what one gets out of education depends entirely upon the effort put into the acquisition...
...college is well known and the presence of foreign students has long been recognized as one of the most broadening influences which can be brought to bear on men in their undergraduate years. There are already a number of endowments for Englishmen, notably the Common-wealth Scholarships, and the lead taken by the Holtzer Fellowship Fund will undoubtedly grow until the continental countries are as well represented...
...proportion of public practice sessions. With all parties starting thus from scratch, no one could pipe up and point to defeats as the result of too few secret practices; and the team might regain some of that organic unity with the student and alumni, the loss of which has lead to the recent plaintive whining about lack of vocal support...