Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Little Old New York. With a pounding of drums and shrill cries of the ballyhoo herald sounding more loudly than ever when motion picture was heralded before, this latest product from the laboratories of William Randolph Hearst arrived in New York. A theatre was purchased and redecorated at an expense of hundreds of thousands. A huge list of names was amassed for the opening night?social celebrities, famous figures of the stage, sporting men and women, beauties, politicians. Victor Herbert conducted the orchestra...
...data from school records presents a much more definite and verifiable conclusion, viz., that the use of tobacco has distinctly harmful effects on the work of immature boys in grammar and high school, and to a lesser extent in college. Whether the effect is physiological or the product of other factors, such as idleness, social distraction, etc., is impossible to determine, but the accumulation of academic records from numerous sources leaves no doubt of the fact...
Joseph Pennell, etcher extraordinary, confidant and biographer of Whistler, American by birth, cosmopolite by choice, arch-enemy of democracy and materialism, damned the "standardized product" of the London Royal College of Arts, in a letter to The New York Times. The reason why we have no national art school in America is "because the Government of this country takes no interest in art. We have no minister, no department of art. ... In fact, we have no art of our own to speak of, and don't really know how properly to steal that of other countries. How long will...
...This is present in addition to the regular number of chromosomes, which always occur in pairs (48 in man), thus giving rise to an uneven number. Ova, on the other hand, in variably have two X-chromosomes. Eggs fertilized by spermatozoa con taining the X-element (thus giving the product a double dose of X's) become females, and the others, males. All experimentalists agree that sex is determined at the very beginning of development in the embryo...
...Lyman Wilbur, M. D., President of Leland Stanford, Jr., University, was elected President of the American Medical Association, to succeed Dr. George E. DeSeweinitz, of Philadelphia, at its 74th annual session in San Francisco. Dr. Wilbur is 48 years old, and is an educational product of the Pacific Coast and of European universities. Almost his entire professional life has been associated with Stanford and its medical schools, though he was a practicing physician for a few years...