Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This was the Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill which Senate Democratic Leader Alben Barkley had agreed to consider early in the current session to avoid a possible filibuster in the closing days of the last one. With antilynching, and the possibility of a major Congressional uproar on the subject of taxation added to the President's highly controversial program, the only thing the special session seemed completely sure of was its full share of fireworks...
...spectator's eye in the exact centre, even with the rim. Then by rolling his eyes the gallerygoer could see painted on the inside of the hemisphere everything that had come within the painter's field of vision when he looked wide-eyed at his subject. Responsible for this unique artistic experience was a freckled, 31-year-old artist named Robert Henry Blickenderfer, who has been working on his ''neo- scopes" for three years...
Cause. Until last week the cause of measles was uncertain. Bacteriologists for years suspected streptococci, the great family of germs responsible for scarlet fever, septic sore throat, erysipelas, childbed fever. But no one ever saw the germ of measles. Therefore bacteriologists tossed the subject into that catchpot of medical conjecture labeled VIRUS. Only means of immunity which proved effective was hypodermic injection of serum from the blood of people convalescing from measles; or inoculations of the nasal secretions of measles victims in the first stage of the disease...
...offspring of the Greek gods Hermes and Aphrodite was bi-sexual Hermaphrodites. The Egyptian moon deity, too, was hermaphroditic, and one Biblical commentator declares: "When the Holy One . . . created the first man, he created him a hermaphrodite." In spite of the antiquity of man's interest in the subject, until last week there was still a place for an exhaustive clinical study of hermaphroditism and what to do about it surgically, which has now been filled by Dr. Hugh Hampton Young's Genital Abnormalities, Hermaphroditism and Related Adrenal Diseases (Williams & Wilkins...
...acres of undeveloped oil-land leased by foreigners (TIME, Nov. 15). Last week, while foreign oil companies threatened to leave Mexico, and relations between the Mexican and U. S. Governments were under greater strain than at any time for years, President Cárdenas further confused the subject by promising to lease (but not leasing) to a British firm the rights to the undeveloped portions of the Poza Rica field, second in richness only to the Iraq field...