Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the Harvard Forest at Petersham, typical of the little-known parts of Harvard, has been placed before the public eye as a result of the recent hurricane, and has stood the test of public opinion with success. Both the fact that the University maintains the oldest experimental forest tract in America, and the fact that men like Ward Shepard '10 comprise its staff, cannot help but bring forth creditable comment from the public...
...fine finish of glazed Wedgwood ware; sapping shafts of a nearby coal mine made Wedgwood ovens sink two feet; Hanley's congestion, for which Critic Lewis Mumford damned the place as a "non-city" (TIME, April 18), blocked Wedgwood expansion. So the firm bought a wooded 400-acre tract five miles outside the grimy town, planned a $1,500,000 factory with electric ovens and a model town for 600 Wedgwood employes and anyone else who cares to live there. Including the new plant, Wedgwood's assets total some $2,500,000. Profit is a secret, but dividends...
...several monthS, suddenly return, so that the average duration of the disease is reckoned at three to four months. Fatalities are few. The main aftereffect is weakening of the heart. Whether undulant fever causes abortion in humans is not yet known, but it does temporarily affect the genital tract...
Gerald B. Winrod, tract-selling Wichita evangelist whose "intolerance" (TIME, Aug. 1) would have made a splendid target for Democratic Senator George McGill this autumn should Mr. Winrod have been nominated. With two other Republican candidates up for the Senate, about 300,000 Republican votes were cast, or 140,000 more than Kansas Democrats have cast in their hottest Senatorial fights...
Having devised this simple indicator of lesions within the digestive tract, Dr. Woldman at present is trying to devise a measure of the lesion's size. Wrote he: "There is some evidence that the quantity of phenolphthalein excreted may have a relation to the size of the lesion...