Word: livingstons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arkansas & the Constitution. ". . . The Louisiana Purchase . . . has always had a special significance for me. I am interested in it for family reasons because Robert R. Livingston,* our Minister to France, negotiated the purchase by direction of President Thomas Jefferson-and I must admit that he drove a very shrewd bargain. . . . [Jefferson] had the courage to act for the benefit of the United States without the full and unanimous approval of every member of the legal profession...
After giving nine years to the research, during which time he electrocuted 900 guinea pigs, twelve rabbits, ten cats, ten dogs, ten pigs. 500 sheep and ten calves, Livingston Polk Ferris. Bell Telephone Laboratories Engineer, last week in Electrical Engineering, was able to state precisely why a person may drop dead upon being shocked by a small current of electricity. Such an accident may happen when a person, still wet from a bath, touches an improperly grounded electric light in the bathroom. Mr. Ferris and associates rediscovered a method of reviving such shocked persons...
...Harvard line-ups: VARSITY FRESHMAN Wood, oh oh, Shepard Hunsaker, J. P., ih ih, Hammond Cleveland, la la, Elrod Hartstone, la Scott, 2a 2a, Blanchard Campion, e c, Tolliver Duffey, 2d 2d, Towner Magurn, 1d 1d, Livingston Warwick, cp co, Fishman Witherspoon, p p, Chaisson Howard, g g, Riecken
Jack Benny and Mary Livingston, noted radio and stage comedians now in Boston for a week's engagement at the Metropolitan Theatre, were said to have made arrangements to drop in at the dance, but at 11.45 o'clock there was no Jack Benny to be found...
...development of this idea. Mosca's s less well known in this country than Pareto, but it was from Mosca's works, published twenty years before Pareto began writing, that the latter drew many of his beliefs. His works are now in the process of translation by Professor Arthur Livingston of Columbia...