Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point is, one does not take a wet-dry poll in a saloon. Asking double-header patrons if they like doubleheaders amounts to the same thing. In both cases, the sample is biased...
...approval. The President approved for Bonneville only, but the idea seemed to be that if it worked at Bonneville the formula would be applied permanently to TVA, Boulder and Grand Coulee Dams and the "little TVAs" of the future. Said Mr. Ross: "We ought to be businesslike about this thing and pay Uncle Sam back the money he puts...
...studies Dr. Szent-Györgyi found that the adrenal glands secrete a substance, ascorbic acid, which he subsequently discovered to be the same thing as Vitamin C. To further these studies, Dr, Szent-Györgyi needed large quantities of ascorbic acid, and his pursuit of it took him to a half-dozen European universities and the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn, where Dr. Edward Calvin Kendall, isolator of thyroid hormone and analyzer of adrenal cortex hormone, provided him with a big stock of adrenals fresh from South St. Paul stockyards. He still was not able to get enough...
Three distinguished faculty Geologists were entertained by a budding Eliot House disciple recently. After lunch they inspected rocks, maps, charts, one thing and another, and then took leave, encouraging him towards further study of rocks...
...though its truth must be challenged, for he is obviously wrong when he says that the Communists' "advocate class struggle." They do not. They say that the class struggle is a fact and that only the dictatorship of the proletariat can end it. That is not the same thing as what Maurin, says, but it is Marx or Lenin. Maurin has the especial merit of stating a point of view so badly that it stimulates the reader to examine closely his every word. Thus he acquaints us with the opinions of many persons less articulate than he, and the discussion...