Word: number
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also under consideration is the question of whether the School should reduce its number to an enrollment of a thousand students...
Vaudeville was back on Broadway for the first time since 1932. The new offering, Vaudeville Marches On, retains the old spirit and most of the old gags. Best number: The Wiere Brothers, three European cutups who literally draw laughter...
Discouraged by a steady decline in the number of U. S. students studying languages, and by the racial and religious discriminations against teachers in other lands -which they deplored*-2,500 members of the Modern Language Association met for their 55th convention last week in Manhattan. On hand to comfort them with a puckish ode to "useless knowledge" was Dr. Joseph Wood Krutch, literary critic and English professor at Columbia University...
When these sources of confusion were less well understood than now, it was fashionable to attribute every pituitary reaction to a separate hormone. Riddle exposed some of these as "ghosts." He believes the number of definitely established front-lobe hormones to be small-five at most. These possible five are 1) thyrotropin, the thyroid-stimulator; 2) adrenotropin, which acts on the adrenals; 3) and 4), "FSH" and "LH" which affect the ovaries or testes; 5) prolactin...
...some years Dr. Irving Langmuir of General Electric Co. has investigated the properties of monomolecular layers- that is, oil films, one molecule thick. He finds that in such layers molecules all stand on end, lined up in the same direction; that layers any number of molecules thick could be built up on a pane of glass by repeatedly dipping it in water covered with a monomolecular film. All this, however, came under the head of "pure-science" research...