Word: origination
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Europe and Africa. Messages will be sent from Wales and other distant places to test his theory. The secret is being closely guarded, but the method is said to depend on a new kind of receiving instrument, whereby stations can tell the point of the wave's origin to a fraction of a second...
...Simon Flexner, of the Rockefeller Institute, Dr. William H. Park, director of the New York City Health Department Laboratory, Dr. Walter Niles, dean of Cornell University Medical College, Dr. Mathias Nicoll, Jr., Deputy State Health Commissioner, and other scientific men declared in favor of continued experimentation. " The origin of these bills," Dr. Flexner declared, " is based on ignorance. If enacted into law they would strike at the roots of development in medical science...
...sooner had the gavel fallen on the 67th Session of Congress, than junketing trips at Government expense began. "Junketing"-a word of obscure origin-means a feast, a pleasure trip, a good time, and has for years been applied to the custom of members of Congress to spend the Congresional recesses in traveling about the world on public funds. Junketing trips find their justification in being ostensibly tours of investigation in the interests of the people. In practice, they are just free vacation sprees. Inspection trips this year will take Congressmen to Panama, Hawaii, Alaska, Russia...
Numerous undergraduates interested in social service have viewed with delight the new branch of this philanthropy that has recently found its origin in New York. Strangers to the "big city,"--lonely, desirous of human companionship--have only to use the telephone to secure a charming feminine partner who will be eager to give the wanderer an evening of "wholesome pleasure." A gentlemen's preferences as to color, age, and figure are given careful attention by those in charge of allotting the girls; all that is required of the man in the case in a payment of ten dollars...
...Mills, who died in October, 1921, made his bequest in memory of his wife, for the establishment at the University of the Elizabeth Worcester Mills Fund, the income "to be devoted to the investigation of the origin and cure of cancer". The money will be applied to the support of important research work being carried on for this purpose by the Harvard Cancer Commission in the new John Collins Warren laboratory, opened last spring adjoining the Huntington Memorial Hospital. This bequest is expected to make possible a much more thorough and detailed investigation of the constitutional effects of radiation...