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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fetal livers proved to be more powerful than the livers of older animals in stimulating the formation of blood in pernicious anemia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Medical Year | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...thus save valuable time. Though he was destined for the ministry, after two years' schooling his father realized that Ben would do better in trade, took him out of school, made him assist in the family candle-shop. When Ben was twelve he was made apprentice to his older brother James, a printer; soon he was contributing anonymous articles, signed Mrs. Silence Dogood, to his brother's New England Courant. But Ben and James could not get along; at 17 Ben ran away, sailed to Manhattan, walked to Philadelphia. There he worked in the printing shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: World Citizen | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...midshipman, at $19 a month, and, like other midshipmen, found it hard to buy all the proper uniforms on that pay. At 23 he served under Commodore David Porter against the Caribbean pirates. Six years later he went as third lieutenant to the famed frigate Constellation, four years older than himself, which had spouted broadsides against the French, the English, the pirates of Tripoli. In 1835 he married Anne Catherine Lloyd of Baltimore, who bore him eight children-all daughters. When the Naval Academy at Annapolis was founded (1845), Buchanan was made Superintendent. A stern disciplinarian, he once unbent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sailor | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...bust of Sena. Because Miss Foster is a brittle beauty, Mr. Morgan an absurd farceur, and Jo Mielziner, who designed the scenery, knows how to burlesque the futuristic trend, this satire on ultra-modern estheticism by Novelist Ernest Pascal (The Marriage Bed) has its memorable moments. What the quaint older generation would have called a love affair occurs to Sena and Percival. To them it is merely a biological barb which can be plucked out in one assignation, leaving them to work in peace and with increased artistic comprehension of each other. But Husband Harlow, acting like an old fogy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...office. A reply to the questionnaire from every member of the Class of 1930 is considered essential to the effectiveness of these new services and the significance of the study. Replies to the questionnaire sent out by the Alumni Placement Service will be made comparable to returns of these older surveys and will be published in the CRIMSON. As over 90 per cent of the classes from 1923 to 1926 responded to the questionnaire sent out by the Committee on Choice of Vocations, the significance of the comparisons thus made will depend upon the extent to which the Class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW SURVEY TO QUIZ SENIORS ON CAREERS | 12/12/1929 | See Source »

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