Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan, Boston and Toronto are the scenes of the three great annual indoor horse shows in North America, the greatest being the so-called National in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Lacking funds this year, Boston did not want a show. Having a World's Fair, to which a horse show was as essential as a balloon ascension, Chicago did want one. Last week the Chicago Fair held its show in the 124th Field Artillery Armory...
...Cyclopropane, a colorless gas derived from marsh gas, has been tried out as a new anesthetic at the Universities of Toronto and Wisconsin, with favorable results. Cyclopropane is not unpleasant to take, without harmful effects on the heart, less inflammable than other anesthetic gases, as relaxing to the patient as ether. ¶ Oxygen skillfully injected in small quantities under the skin will accomplish almost everything that inhaled oxygen does. A pint of subcutaneous oxygen has the beneficial effects of several hundred gallons of inhaled oxygen. Presuming skill on the part of the doctor, injected oxygen lessens the cost and speeds...
Professor Etienne Gilson of the College do France will give three lectures here on November 1, 2, and 3, it is reported by the department of Philosophy. Professor Gilson is also head of the institute of Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto and was formerly on the staff at Harvard. He is noted the world over as an authority on medieval thought. The first two lectures will consider "the Social Function of Theology" and the third, "Duns Scotus and Heidegger's Phenomenology." Duns Scotus was leader of the movement opposing Thomas Aquinas, the great Catholic philosopher of the middle...
January 21 Rev. J. R. P. Sclater, Old St. Andrew's Church, Toronto...
...every 100? in each U. S. dollar since last April? Continental money-changers, canniest of whom are reputed to be "the Greeks," delight in selling dollars short, but bankers know that that accounted for only a fraction of the drop. Last week from the British Commonwealth Relations Conference in Toronto came confirmation of what Wall Street has long suspected: that U. S. citizens have exported their dollars by the hundreds of millions...