Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...counties, 18 districts in Brazil, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria and France. 3) Yellow Fever-eliminated it through both Americas (only three cases in the year). 4) Malaria-proved that paris green prevents breeding of malaria-carrying mosquitoes. 5) Medical Education-gave money to U. S. universities or schools at Toronto, London, Copenhagen, Prague, Warsaw, Belgrade, Zagreb, Budapest, Trinidad, Sao Paolo, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Brussels, Utrecht, Strasbourg, Beirut, Singapore, Bankok, Montreal, Peking. 6) Nursing-help to training schools in U. S., China, Brazil, France, Jugoslavia and Poland. 7) Biology-aid to Johns Hopkins, Yale, Iowa State. 8) Fellowships- to 842 men and women...
Died. Chester Daniel Massey, 75, industrialist (Canadian farm implements), philanthropist, educator; at Toronto, Canada...
...resourcefulness are of an extremely high order. His opponents never feel secure against the "impossible" shots that it is his habit to bring off. . . . Siwanoy Club (Mount Vernon, N. Y.) prepared a triumph for its illustrious son and his bride of four months, the former Agnes Isabel Lewis of Toronto...
...exasperated editor might perpetrate a hoax of this sort. But he will never meddle with a religious subject. That was left to a Canadian Modernist during the ten-day session of the World's Christian Fundamentals Association at Toronto the beginning of the month. W. Harold Young, a Canadian correspondent of the Christian Century, gleefully tells the story in the current issue of that periodical...
...years ago a Toronto writer faked a story of the discovery by two Swedish scientists, Drs. Smierkase and Butterbrod, of the skeleton of a fish large enough to have swallowed Jonah. Toronto papers refused the yarn, for "Smierkase" and "Butterbrod" too transparently mean "soft cheese" and "butter bread." However, at the Fundamentalist convention, the clever writer found his opportunity, sent the manuscript without comment to a Dr. Brown, who based his main argument for the authenticity of the Jonah story on this "discovery." Toronto papers this time reported Dr. Brown and his "proof." Then they were told of the hoax...