Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington's Sibley Memorial Hospital, Mrs. Roosevelt cut a red ribbon tied around a baby incubator to dedicate a premature birth station endowed by the Variety Club. Said she: "I am not surprised that show people have done this. They are the most generous people I know...
...Democrats in 17 States will be turned out of political jobs by victorious Republicans. In two States (California, Maryland) 9,700 Republicans were turned out by victorious Democrats. Mr. Garner was unimpressed by an election chart, said to have been prepared by the Jurizarlat. which purported to show that the New Deal's set-backs in November were largely local defeats, hinging on local issues, scandals, personalities...
Moreover, some responses are not due to one hormone, but to the combined action of two or more. This phenomenon is called "synergism." The work of Evans and others convinced many a gland man that the pituitary secreted a "growth hormone." Riddle's researches, however, tend to show that growth is a synergic response to two hormones, thyrotropin and prolactin. He also believes that this same pair get together in another synergism to maintain body heat...
...Francisco's present exposition, subtitled "A Pageant of the Pacific," the board of architects was an all-Western team. Chairman was George William Kel-ham, who had also been chief architect for the 1915 show. When he died two years ago he was succeeded by Arthur Brown Jr., another Panama-Pacific architect. Outstanding characteristic of the rest of the Fair architects, as of the exposition they designed, was their collaborative harmony. Fellow members of the Bohemian Club, august sanctuary of San Francisco tradition, most of them shared a mellow view of architecture and were damned if they would kill...
...last week as she sang it, light-hearted as ever, the rest of the cast, sentimental as actor folk are, could not bear to meet her eye. For they knew from the papers that that afternoon Mary's father had died at his home in Texas. After the show, chubby, fatherly Victor Moore, accompanied by tubby, motherly Sophie Tucker, went around to Mary's dressing room, gently broke the news, tiptoed out and left her alone...