Word: survey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revive her by biting her, failed, remained several hours, departed. What he did not tell while under the influence of scopolamine was that he had imitated a woman's voice when he answered the telephone. He was held for first-degree murder. In Science versus Crime,* a vivid survey of modern scientific criminology, Author Henry Morton Robinson has glowing things to say of scopolamine, believes extensive, skillful use of it would eliminate much third-degree brutality. Quite another view was apparent in a blast last week from Dean Paul G. Toohey of Kansas City's Rockhurst College...
...surfaced road. Now known as "U. S. Route 30" most of the way from Atlantic City to Oakland, the Lincoln Highway was conceived by Promoter Carl Fisher early in the Century. Packard's onetime President Henry Bourne Joy formed the Lincoln Highway Association in 1913, pushed through the survey preliminaries in two years, began actual road building in 1915. With the War, the Government formed the Highway Transport Committee of the Council of National Defense, became interested in the project. This was the beginning of the present National Highway System. With its sage cooperation, the Lincoln Highway progressed slowly...
...Northern Nigeria to Director of Education of the Southern Provinces. By last week he was safe in comfortable anonymity as King George's representative in St. Vincent, British West Indies. Last week clamorous cables had thrust Governor Grier and his miniscule island into world headlines, sent a British survey ship scudding up from Grenada to land Marines with fixed bayonets to restore order...
Scoring college curricular designed to give "a general survey of knowledge which will provide an understanding of the world in which we live," President Conant took part in the ceremonies commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Bryn Mawr College Saturday...
...survey of over 100 colleges throughout the country has shown a strong increase in the number of students using the home laundry system and the Express company has been quick to develop the new business on a large scale. Students seem to like the pick-up and delivery service on both ends of the journey which this method of sending service offers. The popularity of the idea may also be partially based on the chance to send the bundle collect and receive it paid...