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Word: toronto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Toronto Dr. Charles Herbert Best, co-discoverer of insulin,* was demonstrating the use of a drug to some medical students. He proposed to inoculate each member of the class with a slight dose of the drug; to prove it unharmful he gave himself a shot in the arm first. Immediately he was ill, had to retire for a rest of several hours. Investigation disclosed that the label on the bottle of the drug indicated a solution 100 times less powerful than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 2, 1931 | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...best Harvard hockey combinations in recent years and all signs point to a triumph for the Crimson six in the series. To the winner will go the title of mythical champion of North America, since Harvard just recently defeated McGill, who had won the Canadian title from Toronto...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEXTET SPEEDS THROUGH ITS CONCLUDING PRACTICE | 2/27/1931 | See Source »

...Christmas vacation by the Harvard forces, who had all they could do to eke out a 3 to 2 victory from the sturdy Canadians. Since that time McGill has shown up increasingly better, and on Thursday last annexed the amateur championship of Canada by defeating the University of Toronto. Dartmouth was repulsed by the Harvard team last Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD FAVORED IN SECOND CLASH WITH GREEN TODAY | 2/21/1931 | See Source »

...verse-maker of sorts is Sir William Thomas White, Canada's famed Wartime Minister of Finance. In Toronto last week he made and solemnly handed to reporters a verse about something extremely close to the hearts of most Britons: cancellation of War debts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Make an end of Reparations! | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...Pianist Zecchi had previously played privately in Manhattan, publicly in Washington, Tallahassee, Toronto, Guelph, Decatur, Winnipeg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Prodigious Cleveland | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

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