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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general the scale of popularity agrees with that last year and the year before. Medicine always assumes a leading role, followed closely by law, the teaching profession, and business...
Conducted in the same way as regular college courses, the extension courses include lecture, discussions, and written and laboratory work. Students are tested by examinations and marked on the same scale as in college courses...
Many an educator envied Mr. Hancher his job. Through the middle of the University in Iowa City rolls the peaceful Iowa River. The University buildings are on a gigantic scale: its field house contains a full-sized practice football field; its indoor swimming pool is one of the largest in the U. S. On the river banks stand a Rockefeller-financed Medical College, a Rockefeller-financed theatre, a Carnegie-financed art building. Even more famed is Iowa's Child Welfare Research Station...
Died. Dr. Edmund Rumpler, 68, Austrian-born designer of Germany's first automobile (1897), builder of the famed Rumpler "Taube" (Dove) scouting planes used by the Central Powers in World War I, pioneer advocate of big-scale transoceanic air service ("Give me wings large enough and sufficient motive power and I'll take the earth for an airplane ride"); of heart disease; in Mecklenburg, Germany. After the advent of Nazi power, Designer Rumpler was non-Aryan enough to be benched, big enough to remain in Germany...
...take some himself. Purpose: to help the dentist recreate the patient's facial expression as nearly as possible. Besides photography, several other techniques are in use. One is to make shadow records of the profile ; another is to take facial measurements with an instrument called the dento-profile scale; another is "facial moulage," a life mask...