Word: leonards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a famed statesman. Among them: Josiah Bartlett, "Signer"; Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln; Governor John A. Dix of New York; Governors Butler, Cox of Massachusetts ; Secretary of War John Wingate Weeks; U. S. Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone; Major General Leonard Wood...
...spread; 7) lepers' children are not born leprous, but catch the disease when very young, and hence the desirability of providing for these untainted ones; 8) leprosy is being cured; 9) money is needed to hasten cures, to further research, and to care for segregated lepers; 10) the Leonard Wood Memorial for the Eradication of Leprosy (Perry Burgess, president), which organized last week's cruise, needs such money for the work in the Philippines. For its effect on morale the cruising experts advised Society to abandon the horrific term "leper" to substitute the softer term "case of leprosy...
...most compelling rebuttals was not a direct one. It came from Professor Julian Sorell Huxley. Brother of Novelist Aldous Leonard (Point Counterpoint) Huxley, and grandson of the late great Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, Julian Huxley is himself a most distinguished biologist and eloquent member of the scientific vanguard. Speaking to the Philadelphia Forum, he said: "In the long run we must envisage the control of population in the same manner we now control contagious disease. Birth control is by no means perfect, but it is one of the major events in the world's history...
...Reverend Mr. Thomas Leonard Harris will conduct the services this morning in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 0'clock...
...Reverend Mr. Thomas Leonard Harris will conduct the services this morning in Appleton Chapel at 8.45 o'clock...