Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Psychiatrists, crack experts on cracked brains, met at Toronto, last week, and for a moment entertained the scientifically crazy notion of forbidding a psychoanalysis of Abraham Lincoln's personality...
Emulsion Sold. For almost 70 years famed Scott's Emulsion (cod liver oil) has been made by Scott & Bowne Inc. of Bloomfield, N. J. Last week Scott's Emulsion was sold to Harold F. Ritchie of Toronto and F. M. Shoemaker of Elmira, N. Y. The Ritchie-Shoemaker combination already owns the Pompeian facial cream company (bought last year from Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co.) and controls International Proprietaries, Ltd., maker of Eno's Fruit Salt, morning-after tonic...
Harvey Williams Gushing, Harvard's great brain surgeon, celebrated his 62nd birthday last week in Toronto, by hypothesizing that stomach ulcers are caused by brain trouble...
Washington last week caught up with Leyden, Berlin and Toronto in the matter of liquefying helium (after hydrogen most volatile of gases) and keeping it liquid-a scientific feat first accomplished 23 years ago. The jubilant men who did it were staff members of the U. S. Bureau of Standards-Drs. George Kimball Burgess (director), Hobert Cutler Dickinson and Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde and two aides. In cylinders stout enough to withstand the tremendous expansion of gases they compressed air to liquid ( - 310º F.). Liquid air helped liquefy hydrogen ( - 432.4º F.); liquid hydrogen helped freeze helium to a colorless...
Sixty-one years ago yesterday, on April 6, 1870, Professor Schofield was born in Brockville, Ontario. He received his A.B. from Victoria College, University of Toronto in 1889, his A.M. from Harvard in 1893, and his Ph.D. in 1925. From 1895 to 1897 he studied abroad at Paris, Oslo, and Copenhagen, then served at Harvard as Instructor in English from 1897 to 1902 and as Assistant Professor of English from 1902 to 1906, when he was elected to the chair of Comparative Literature...