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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...respiratory disease. When the University of Chicago officially announced that its Isidore Sydney Falk had isolated the causative germ, the Streptococcus polymorphous (TIME, Dec. 23), the news spread with the celerity of a political or murder despatch. From London Dr. David Thomson, who has worked on the same problem, said: "Proving that one has discovered the true germ of influenza is in reproducing the disease in man or in animals by this germ in pure cultures . . . this is a very important part of the American's discovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Influenza Germ Found? | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Simultaneously Dr. Henry Seidel Canby, editor of the Saturday Review of Literature, Yale lecturer, promoter of Avon Old Farms, announced that, sorry as he was to see Pedagog French leave Yale, he was glad to get him at Avon. Said Dr. Canby: "In accepting the Provostship of Avon, he is not leaving the educational area in which good teaching and the sympathetic handling of youth are so important, but shifting his ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teacher Snubbed | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...done well by the university, for Cornell's ravines are a joy to her poetasters, a convenience to her cavaliers, a laboratory for her scientists. The late longtime (since 1889) Trustee Henry Woodward Sackett, Manhattan lawyer, counsel for the New York Herald Tribune, loved well these natural wonders. Said he: "Since my first knowledge of Cornell University, I have regarded the beautiful deep ravines or gorges . . .'as among the choicest physical assets of the university. . . . Every one who matriculates . . . will carry through after days their memory and spiritual influence." During his lifetime he gave some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cornell the Beautiful | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...they could get money enough to put their wavering company firmly on its feet. They had been sitting for a long time without finding a way out of their difficulties when, miraculously, a taL stranger walked into their sanctum, slapped down on the table a $20,000,000 check, said, "There is my letter of introduction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Catalyst in Steel | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Essential to Mr. Eaton is the assistance of able steel men for Mr. Eaton knows little of steel and, like a chemist's catalyst by his mere presence hastens reactions in which he has otherwise no part. "I am,'' he himself has said, "only an investor." Born in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, he graduated from McMasters University, Toronto, and, in 1906 arrived in Cleveland with the Baptist ministry as his chosen career. Before ordination, however, he became interested in public utilities, left the ministry in favor of Cleveland street railways. Next he went to Iowa, bought up options...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Catalyst in Steel | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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