Word: originated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Author Roberts, queried, recommends: Moses Coit Tyler's Literary History of the American Revolution, Charles Stedman's History of the Origin, Progress and Termination of the American War, William Gordon's History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment of the Independence of the United States of America, Thomas Jones's History of New York During the Revolutionary War, Sydney George Fisher's True History of the American Revolution and Struggle for American Independence, Rupert Hughes' George Washington (last two volumes...
...Florence Rena Sabin, 69, has a long career of firsts: first woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins, first woman to teach there, first woman member of the Rockefeller Institute, first woman member of the National Academy of Sciences. She is famed for her discovery of the origin and processes of the lymphatic system, her studies in tuberculosis. Dr. Simon Flexner, former head of the Rockefeller Institute once called her "the greatest living woman scientist and one of the foremost scientists of all time...
...Skap" stuck to her guns. "The Paris designer is free," said she, expressing annoyance at questions implying a new order in France. Some fashion experts began talking of "Skap's" Italian origin. They saw no other logical reason for her leaving a lucrative U. S. perfume business and a personable U. S. citizen daughter (Greenwich Village-born, British-schooled "Gogo") for a questionable future "helping her former employes in Paris...
Miss Corio, who has always made it a principle never to go out with Harvard men, is expected to reveal the origin of this tradition as well as to lecture on some of the subtler points of her artistic calling...
...tragedy of academic economics: the struggle for a scientific approach to an essentially unscientific objct, the attempt to project reality into a vacuum by relegating the "other factors" out of the rump of reality, the economist wilfully shapes a fragment into an imaginary whole, his theory. By its very origin, economic theory is a segment...