Word: sameness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In your excellent paper of Oct. 21! noted a letter from George L. Moore explaining about the word lagniappe (lanny-yap). I wish to men-.tion that our "oldtime" Negroes (and many whites also) used a word which meant exactly the same thing; the word was Koontra, and is supposed...
Before Dr. William Holland Wilmer became professor of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins University, the University's President Frank Johnson Goodnow and Professor William Henry Welch both wrote: "It is generally conceded that Dr. Vilmer is the outstanding ophthalmologist in this country. . . . The faculty of John? Hopkins University considers that...
¶ Completed last week was the U. S. delegation to the five-power naval conference at London next January. To join Statesman Stimson, and Senators Reed and Robinson (of Arkansas), President Hoover appointed Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, Ambassadors Charles Gates Dawes (Britain), Hugh Gibson (Belgium), Dwight Whitney...
A stone that is thought to the billions of years older than the stones of the earth's crust, older, indeed, than the earth itself, and whose secrets are the same as the ultimate secrets of the origin and existence of the material universe, was exhibited last Wednesday night by...
In his lecture he took up in detail the sub-classifications in that part of the scheme which runs from electrons to meteorites, which is called the Microcosmos. The subject most emphasized in the lecture was the great importance of the study of shooting stars. He listed and described many...