Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chemist, Catholic priest and longtime teacher at the University of Notre Dame, made a poisonous black tar by treating acetylene with metallic chlorides.-At a scientific meeting in 1925 Nieuwland described one of his experiments producing acetylene rubber. A Du Pont chemist heard him, started his company on the trail. With Nieuwland's collaboration Du Pont workers made a good rubbery material first called DuPrene, now neoprene, which is highly resistant to oil. Its dozens of uses include hose linings, gaskets, conveyor belts, rubber gloves, printing plates, refrigerator seals, hospital sheeting, sink scrapers...
...Representative Martin Dies, on a trail he has been snuffing up a long time, proposed legislation to outlaw both the Communist Party and the Bund, fix heavy penalties for membership, suggested the President create a council of home defense to coordinate the FBI, the Secret Service, Army and Navy Intelligence...
...patients loose, started them weaving baskets, learning old folk dances, thus laying the foundations for occupational therapy. He visited his patients in their homes to observe their everyday life, took Mrs. Meyer along to talk to their families, worked up detailed case records. In this manner they blazed the trail for psychiatric social work, a vital part of psychiatric treatment today. In 1908 he helped Yale-man Clifford Whittingham Beers, who had recently recovered from manic-depressive insanity, start the mental hygiene movement to clean up State institutions, educate the public on insanity...
Setting out in his 45-foot ketch, the Mary Otis, Samuel Eliot Morison '07, professor of History, will continue his colorful voyages on the trail of Christopher Columbus during the summer, this time tracing the probable route of the discoverer in the Caribbean...
...purpose of the gathering will be to acquaint the intrepid trail-blazers-to-be with the hazards of the upstream passage so that the lesser men will be afforded an early opportunity to drop out. The remainder will be addressed by the Flag Officers on the ideal and purpose of the trip: to pioneer a maritime rapprochement between Harvard and Wellesley...