Word: popular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arthur MacDonald to measure all congressional skulls annually, estimate the average brain weight within and make illuminating deductions in a report to the Vice President- without mentioning any names-as to the "inner activities of Congress." Dr. Copeland has long fattened his income by writing on popular medical subjects for the newspapers and so was an ideal sponsor for the ingenious new plan. Dr. MacDonald, who had already measured scores of Representatives and Senators in the 62nd Congress, explained that he would like to examine legislators of other countries too, for comparison, "but our country is first and should continue...
...rodents exhibited symptoms similar to those of small boys behind barns. On the contrary, the rats ran, jumped, squeaked more actively. Physiologist Field's object: to ascertain the probable effect of smoking on humans. After establishing that tobacco stimulates and produces increased activity, she proposed to investigate the popular notion that the after effects of smoking are depressing...
Amid your manifold and widely interesting articles, can you not find space for something on popular astronomy?a subject of fascinating interest to multitudes who have never had even the chance to look through a telescope...
...German people, through popular initiative and referendum, decree the following...
...universities, but foundations and student exchange agencies had brought more foreign students to U. S. colleges.? The Russian Student Fund, Inc. (Manhattan) reported the impending graduation of 44 onetime refugees. The Commonwealth Foundation for British graduate students and the Davison scholarships for British undergraduates were more than ever popular. Conversely, exchange of students with German universities was rearranged for the first time since the War. The first scholarships for U. S. students at Japanese universities were founded (TIME, Feb. 15). Smith College sent 32 of its young ladies to do their junior-year studies in France...