Word: northwestern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago in Western Australia. John Dunn, now in his late 20s, Harvard Dental School, class of '29, went out to Australia on graduation, had a hard time fighting the Depression in Perth. Then, on pure nerve, he pushed up into the appalling open spaces of Northwestern Australia. Today he is the only dentist in an area stretching 1,000 mi. along the coast of the Indian Ocean and 400 mi. inland-a region the size of California and Texas combined-with a white population of perhaps 3,000 people...
...rich radium deposit is one which yields 90 to 120 milligrams (.00315 to .0042 oz.) nearly pure radium bromide salt per ton of concentrated ore (50 tons of crude ore). From ore bodies of such richness in northwestern Canada the refining plant is able to extract one gram of commercially pure radium from 550 tons of mined ore. A San Diego mining engineer and chemist named F. S. Kearney, now working in Mexico, assayed Mrs. Bishop's ore at 130 milligrams of radium per ton. This high figure, Mrs. Bishop said, was confirmed when she sent a sample...
...Bernard A. Reimer, 1929, failed to persuade Harvard Law School to finance the first two, hope to get their expenses back by renting the pictures to alumni and other groups. If Cinemactors Beale & Williston pay out, other films will follow. John Henry Wigmore, 74, dean emeritus of Northwestern University's Law School is tentatively scheduled for film three. The national market for law lecture films: 160,000 lawyers, 40,000 law-students...
...spoke venerable William Heard Kilpatrick, just retired by Columbia's Teachers College and now at Northwestern University, at the 75th or "diamond" convention of the National Education Association in Detroit last week. As 1,300 delegates and 12,000 vacationing NEA members crowded warmly into the Masonic Temple to begin four days of talk about their profession, no one was more on teachers' minds than the President of the U. S. He had just signed a new NEA charter which democratized the board of directors by dropping from it the Association's 22 past presidents, mostly school...
JOHN H. WIGMORE Northwestern University Law School Chicago...