Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Toronto...
...This ["fight] will be news. It will be news to people who think that the League of Nations is composed of Toronto, Rochester, Newark, Jersey City, Baltimore, Reading, Buffalo and Syracuse and that it plays ball. It will be news to people who think that the Esch-Cummins act is in vaudeville and that Magnus Johnson pitches for the Washington ball club, that La Follette makes a hair tonic and that Borah is a wrestler...
...Banting has already been granted an annuity of $7,500 by the Canadian Government (TiME, July 9) ; the province of Ontario has appropriated $10,000 a year to found a department of research at Toronto, headed by Banting; during the present year he has done little else but attend, by special request, the leading medical and surgical meetings of America and Great Britain, receiving enthusiastic ovations at every turn. Many an older man might be forgiven if such adulation went to his head, but not so Banting, who remains the same modest young seeker after truth...
...years old, the son of a farmer living at Alliston, Ont. He worked on his father's homestead until he was 19, when he entered the University of Toronto. Graduating from medical school, he entered the Canadian Army, became a battalion surgeon with the rank of captain. Wounded at Cambrai, invalided to England, he returned to Canada in 1920 and became a laboratory assistant at the Western University, London, Ont., where by chance he soon became interested in the internal secretions of the pancreas from the so-called " islands of Langerhans " (TiME, April 21), and began experimenting with methods...
Braced by Canadian atmosphere, a raiding party of American professionals crossed the border and took the first nine places in the Ca- nadian open golf championship at Toronto. The Dominion's leading players passed out of the picture in early rounds...