Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charge: Vaccination through the digestive tract is impossible...
Though a Harding picture was at last in the White House, the elaborate Harding Memorial at Marion, Ohio remained last week undedicated. Designed by Henry Hornbostel and Eric Wood of Pittsburgh, this Georgia marble edifice, costing $800,000, stands in the centre of a ten-acre landscaped tract. Forty-eight columns circle the tomb to which the bodies of the 29th President and his wife were moved three years ago. Honorary President of the Harding Memorial Association is Calvin Coolidge. Other officers include Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, John Hays Hammond, John Barton Payne...
Wilbur announced that the U. S. had just taken title to 13,000 acres of timberland owned by Sugar Pine Lumber Co. in the heart of Yosemite National Park. The U. S. paid $3,300,000 for the tract, half the purchase price being donated by John D. Rockefeller Jr.* Last year, over the vigorous protest of Senator Thomas James Walsh of Montana who owns a summer home in Glacier National Park, Congress ordered the Interior Department to buy up all private land within national parks to save them from mutilation (TIME, Feb. 18, 1929). Under...
Westminster's trustees took the occasion to choose a school president. They chose Dr. Frank Herbert Stevenson, 47, able tract-writing minister of Cincinnati's Church of the Covenant. Twenty-one years ago he was missionary to the Indians on the Fort Peck Reservation at La Plata, Mont. Before that he was working for telephone and electric light concerns on the Pacific Coast. He was ordained in 1911. In seminary, work he is president of the board of trustees of Lane Theological at Cincinnati, and was, before the Princeton schism, a member of Princeton Theological's directorate...
...general mode, no less. We are not maintaining, however, that there won't be some who will feel ethically unbuttoned by this scientific document, some who will consider it too elementary, and a few who will be eighteen-ninety, relegating it hastily to the Nokol fireplace. But the tract will continue to speak firmly for itself The more who read it, certainly the better...