Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Girard College Philadelphia...
...explosive which is still one of the most effective weapons against it. During the Revolution he built an oaken submarine with which unsuccessful attempts were made to screw bombs onto the hulls of British warships in Boston Harbor, off Governor's Island, and in the Delaware River above Philadelphia. His "torpedo" (an oaken magazine enclosing 150 Ibs. of gunpowder) went off harmlessly. Too frail to operate the soon discredited "Bushnell's Turtle" himself, its inventor blamed its failure on its operators. After the war he was believed to have spent several years in France. In 1795 he appeared...
...cancer victims and the blood of healthy persons might perhaps form crystals as different as those of coffee and tea. After trying some 23 substances, he hit on copper chloride as blood's best crystallizing agent. Last week Dr. Pfeiffer and his colleague, Dr. George Miley of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College, described their new test for the presence of early cancer...
Boston 7, Philadelphia...
Presbytery cautioned its ministers not to take sides in their sermons. In these and other typical U. S. cities-Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Denver, Portland, Ore.-there was plenty of pulpitation about the War, but no preaching of crusades, no flag-waving. If, as has been suggested in recent months, the U. S. is more embittered against Germany than at the beginning of World War I, the nation's ministers had done their utmost to curb that bitterness last week...