Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Banting and Prof. MacLeod, of the Univ. of Toronto−Insulin, the diabetes specific...
Rowing. Undistracted by the tumult around them, never daunted by the sights they saw, eight much-lauded Yale oarsmen rowed Toronto University (Canada), Italy, Great Britain "out of sight" on the Seine, became world's champions. Jack Beresford, Jr., of England, Henley single sculls champion, swatted past W. Garrett Gilmore of Philadelphia to the world's singles title (amateur) and the Philadelphia Gold Challenge Cup, emblematic of that honor. Switzerland took the four-oared race with coxswain; Holland the pair-oared without coxswain; Great Britain the four-oared without coxswain...
...animals, the okapi* is considered the shyest, the most subtle. The first white man who ever tracked and shot one and brought back the skin and skeleton has arrived in Manhattan, on his way to lecture before the British Association for the Advancement of Science, soon to meet in Toronto. Dr. Cuthbert Christy, naturalist, explorer, investigator of tropical diseases, has told of his long okapi hunt in a book which will be published in the U. S. -Big Game and Pygmies: Experiences of a Naturalist in Central African Forests in Quest of the Okapi. Necessarily it was a long hunt...
...Canada. At Toronto, Frank Thompson of the Mississauga Club became Canadian amateur champion, as in 1921. Lauren Upson, young Californian who nearly upset the 1924 Intercollegiates, was medalist, was eliminated in his semi-final match...
...Koch of Detroit. An investigation made by the Wayne County Medical Society showed that the evidence was not sufficient to warrant any belief in the virtues of the method. At the same time the Philadelphia North American sponsored a story about a serum promoted by one Dr. Glover of Toronto. Investigations by the Toronto Academy of Medicine and by Dr. Francis Carter Wood failed to show any scientific substantiation for Dr. Glover's serum...