Word: origination
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chained doors confronted History 1 students yesterday morning when they tried to leave the New Lecture Hall after Professor Michael Karpovich's lecture on Italy. Some prankster, suspected to be of Freshman origin, had passed shackles through the handles of the Building's great oaken doors during the 9 o'clock session, thus virtually imprisoning 400 men at a stroke. After the first panic several bulky upperclassmen broke the portals to kindling-wood, and the assembly surged through the splinters to freedom...
...Johns Hopkins Medical School, thus starting a long career of firsts: first woman to graduate from the Hopkins, first woman to teach there, first woman member of the Rockefeller Institute, first (and only) woman member of the National Academy of Sciences. She is famed for her discovery of the origin and processes of the lymphatic system, her account of the development of blood cells, her studies of the blood in tuberculosis, her testing of chemical substances isolated from the tubercle bacillus. In 1929 Dr. Simon Flexner, former head of the Institute, called her "the greatest living woman scientist...
...manner in the street." Shortly thereafter the Generalissimo founded a New Life Movement to puritanize and clean up the Chinese, to fight superstition, ignorance and corruption, even to curb such Chinese habits as spitting in public. Chiang turned over the actual running of this movement, obviously Christian in its origin, to his Christian wife. Since then Mme Chiang has been advised, in the New Life Movement and in other matters, by a Congregational missionary, Rev. George W. Shepherd of Auburndale, Mass...
Every experiment in art is a collaboration between artist and layman. Artists now realize this. For the artist, as Holger Cahill wrote, "a new concept of social loyalty and responsibility, of the artist's union with his fellow men in origin and destiny, seems to be replacing the romantic concept of nature which for so many years gave to artists and to many others a unifying approach to art . . . an end seems to be in sight to the kind of detachment which removed the artist from common experience, and which at its worst gave rise to an art merely...
...There are various accounts of the origin of this "Where's Elmer?" of the 1880s. One account: Billy Patterson was a rich Baltimorean who was struck by an unknown party in a border-town free-for-all in Georgia, in 1783. He "inquired so hotly as to who struck him that a national saying therefrom crept into existence . . . he left $1,000 to whoever should name the man." Just 100 years later Mrs. Jenny G. Covely of Athol, N. Y. applied for the legacy, said her father (one Tillerton) had done the deed...