Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago went Andre de Laboulaye, French Ambassador to the U. S., to confer the cross of the Legion of Honor upon President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University, in recognition of his Wartime personnel work (for which he also received a Distinguished Service Medal). This year Northwestern and the University of Chicago are to "cooperate" by exchanging facilities, with the expressed hope of making Chicago "the greatest university centre in the U. S." Last week both were joined with seven other Chicago institutions in offering help to 3,600 one-time students of the city's Crane Junior College...
...field was the 400-acre potato patch of Farmer John Erickson of Waupaca, Wis. The plane was a second-hand crate owned and flown by George Parker, 22-year-old student at Northwestern University. Pilot Parker's job was to stir up the cold air which settles in the lowland, thus save the potatoes from frost. If he brings Farmer Erickson's crop through to harvest unblighted. Pilot Parker will collect $400, enough to send him back to college this autumn. If frost strikes, Parker gets nothing...
...scholarly contribution of Psychological Corp. to last week's psychological conference was the analysis of a two-year survey of advertising's value. Five hundred post-graduate students under general direction of Northwestern University's Professor Samuel Nowell Stevens questioned 10,000 U. S. housewives. Uniformly, from Portland, Ore. and Los Angeles to Miami and Boston, women were impressed and excited by advertising. The advertising message meant most to the women. The dress-up of type, illustration, color and paper, meant less. Nor did abstract ideas and symbols have much influence. The women reacted most effectively...
...Another point: the only large areas where trees develop autumnal colors are northeastern U. S., northeastern Asia, northwestern Europe...
Dean Black's own methods in preventive dentistry are unique. When he reorganized the research department in Northwestern University's Dental School, he took on a metallurgist, two chemists, a pathologist, a physiologist and an anatomist. Ablest of these is pipe-smoking Pathologist Edward Howard Hatton, now the department's director, specialist in focal infection...