Word: may
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...good practitioners of the country. Attending members studied and discussed hospital improvement plans, cancer research, industrial surgery, treatment of fractures, eye-ear-nose-&-throat surgery, care of crippled children. Acrimonious was the discussion on hospitals. Charged William James Mayo: "I would call attention to the clandestine-if I may use so opprobious a term-method of increasing hospital income by exorbitant charges for the use of the operating room. . . ." Passionately retorted Director Warren Pearl Morrill of the Maine General Hospital, Portland: "If some surgeons would forego the pomp and circumstances demanded for their regal round of the wards, A remarkable...
Died. Edwin Emery G. Slosson, 64, onetime (1891-1903) professor of chemistry in Wyoming, author Creative Chemistry, director of Publisher Edward Wyllis Scripps' Science Service (news syndicate); at Washington; of heart disease. His wife, May Preston Slosson, poetess, was Cornell's first woman Ph. D. "To get even with her" he studied several summers for a Ph. D. from the University of Chicago. He was the fountain head of the modern school of journalized science, making abstruse scientific processes into simple stories...
...peration with a four-year course in appreciation in Chicago public high schools. In Cleveland, Nikolai Sokolov's orchestra began its twelfth season, presumably the last before it moves into the new hall provided by the $6,000,000 endowment fund raised last spring (TIME, May 6). Feature of the opening concert was the première of Werner Janssen's New Year's Eve in New York, scored for full orchestra and jazz band. Attentive listeners to its ingenious noise were Manager Adella Prentiss Hughes, Mrs. Nikolai Sokolov, Composer Janssen, his mother and sister, all together...
...study, what is the harm? If he wants to do something new along educational lines, let him do it. There never lived a finer, manlier man than Dr. Barbour. . . . Despite obstacles, where others fall by the wayside, he goes steadily forward-and with a smile though his back may be breaking. . . . If the men of Brown become like Dr. Barbour in the next ten years, the imprint of the university on time will be epochal." In answering the lipstick charge, Dr. Barbour told a story which ended: "I'm the chap who has to eat it." The other charge...
...Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan; second, two U. S. Governors ("Big Two") elected by the "Big Six"; third, six more Governors ("Little Six") each selected by one of the "Big Six" from his own country as a representative of local business, industry; fourth, it is envisioned that additional countries may obtain a share in the Bank's capital and each of these may submit four nominees for Governorship from which the Board will choose two Governors...