Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wrote Mr. Tilden last week: "I have never played more tennis in three days in my life ... a new sensation . . . real amateur sport ... for the game's sake . . . personality ... a lesson...
...Never in the history of Harvard was so much stress put upon the knowledge acquired from books as at present. It would seem that the authorities believe that study will thoroughly fit a man for all the problems of life. Some of us know the great benefits arising from so-called 'outside activities'-a hard, close game calling on brain as well as body for all there is and then some; a stiff pull on the river and a lost race, and also that sympathy for the man supposed to be responsible, which will help carry...
...Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, with its efficiently equipped laboratories and hospitals on the west bank of the East River, Manhattan, has contributed to science many a life-saving discovery: curative sera for one of the fatal forms of pneumonia and for epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis; the microbes causing infantile paralysis and yellow fever; the Carrel-Dakin method of treating infected wounds...
...Notably, Ida Minerva Tarbell, author of The History oj the Standard Oil Co., a thorough job on the seamy side. More recently, muckraking is not so popular and Miss Tarbell has written on the bright side, The Life of Judge Gary, late chairman of the board of U. S. Steel Corp. Critics wonder what she will do with the additional volume on the Standard Oil Co. that she is planning...
...Raskob made predictions: "The normal output [of U. S. motor cars] I should judge to be about 4,500,000 cars per annum. Figuring the life of a car as about five years, replacements should bring the annual normal output to about 5,000,000 cars. This figure has not yet been reached. . . .† Last year General Motors' export business [193,830 cars & trucks worth wholesale $171,991,251] equaled in volume the entire business of the company ten years ago. I see no reason why ten years hence our export business will not equal our total business...