Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brother, who also were in the ship mending their nets. And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him. And they went to Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered the synagogue and taught. . . . -Mark, I: 17-22. In the Smithsonian Institution in Washington one day last week, a swart Assyrian-born scholar named Dr. George W. Lamsa bent over a photostat of a large block of weathered stone covered with squiggly characters. He immediately recognized these as Aramaic, quickly and easily translated them into...
...would have fluctuated close to the basic chart line 100. The U. S. index, however, dropped as low as 50 during the peak of post-War prices. The French index showed almost the same thing. German common stocks did even worse, the index dropping nearly to 10. When the mark lost all real value it stood at only...
...flame front spreading and backwashing around the base of the chamber. At one stage back pressure was observed to make combustion-produced carbon dioxide hotter than the actually burning gases. Pressure-curve recorders enable motormen to cor relate pressure with flame front propagation, a long-sought goal.- Dr. Gerald Mark Rassweiler and Lloyd Withrow of GM's Detroit laboratories...
...past, men who have survived three-score-&-ten are more serious than their juniors on the subject of the future. After that lonely milestone, many an agnostic joins the comforting company of the faithful. But last week stout-hearted Hamlin Garland, though he is five years beyond the warning mark, still kept to his lifelong agnosticism. This intransigence was the more remarkable because for 45 years he had been an eager investigator of spiritualism. Last week he submitted his lifetime's report on psychic research. Its sober findings will be respected by followers of both camps but will give...
Copey, most venerable and most beloved of Harvard's institutions, is seventy-six today. His birthday will be celebrated at the Harvard Club of New York, where the famous teacher will give one of his annual readings to members of the Charles Townsend Copeland Association. Tonight's reading will mark the thirtieth of a series which began in 1906, the only break in the chain having occurred last year, when Copey passed his birthday in Cambridge...