Word: periods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because of these regulations the Presbyterian Missions Board of Governors, at Manhattan, ordered closed last week for an indefinite period the 81-year-old Hangchow Christian College at Hangchow, China...
...preacher should secure metropolitan employment as a taxicab driver and remain so employed for a considerable period, he would undoubtedly witness exhibitions of: drunkenness, misery, wantonness, gaiety, sickness, love. Were he fortunate, he might also witness exhibitions of: murder, robbery, rape. Since preachers sometimes have cause to mention vice, it is well for them to have some knowledge of its nature and consequences. Thus it might be clever for some preacher to perform for a time as the driver of a taxi. This was what the Rev. Thomas H. Whelpley, Manhattan Presbyterian pastor...
This vaccine depends for its efficacy on the slow progress of the rabies germs which travel along nerve fibres to the brain; there entering the nerve cells; first stimulating, then destroying them. In dogs, the incubation period* runs from eight days to a year, with an average of two to eight weeks; in man from twelve to 90 days with an average of three to eight weeks...
...Most of these workers are secured during the impressionable period of adolescence, when these young men and women naturally tend toward religious fanaticism, if unduly influenced...
...stream of gold has turned away from the U. S. In the last year, exports have exceeded imports by $497,963,400, killing all the gains of the 1924-27 period. In June, exports reached a record for a single month with...