Word: silva
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Havana, police raided a hotel, found pretty Señorita Librada Aida Aspuru lying naked on a bed in a darkened room, were informed she had been living there four years, her board and lodging paid for by Señor José Gregorio Silva. Protested she: "I didn't know anything about this World, and I don't want to know anything about it. I want to live alone, to be let alone, and to live in darkness." Said Señor Silva, confirming her story: "She has been suffering an hysteria of sadness. ... I am doing...
...following are appointed for one year from September 1: Harry R. De Silva, professor of Psychology at Massachusetts State College, Ph.D. Harvard '27, as lecturer on Motor Vehicle Administration and Driver Control; Arie J. Haagen-Smit, privat-docent of the University of Utrecht, as lecturer on Biological Chemistry; George M. Stratton, professor emeritus of Psychology at the University of California, as research follow in Psychology; Talbot H. Waterman '36 of East Orange, N. J., as Austin Teaching Follow in Biology; and Charles Schweinfurth '13 of Brookline and Louis Williams of Moose, Wyoming, as research associate of the Botanical Museum...
Faculty men are Miller McClinlock. Maxwell Haleey, Theodore Males, Henry De Silva, Wilfred Brown. Winfield Willers, and the libraries, Joseph Wright...
...undertook to discipline the more irrepressible of those who went West for gold, gambling and glamor. Instead of dying out with the establishment of law & order, Vigilantism in California remains a potent and honored means of squelching those suspected of Communism. Typical was the treatment accorded last August to Silva M. A. ("Jack") Green, sign painter. and Sol Nitzberg. chicken raiser. Reds who promoted an apple-pickers' strike in Sonoma County. One night a band of unknowns seized Green and Nitzberg, clipped their hair, stripped them to the waist, doused them in crankcase oil, feathered them, paraded them through...
...current nationwide drive for road safety emphasizes the practical value of Dr. de Silva's experiments. Every newspaper poll has shown a large majority in favor of strict driving tests in order to assure a high standard of driving and knowledge of the rules of the road. By contributing a scientific means of administering such tests, Dr. de Silva gives these polls some meaning, and does the public at large a considerable service...