Word: transferring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transfer of location of the meet with Dartmouth and Cornell has been decided upon because of the difficulties experienced by runners in negotiating the Mechanics Building track. The track in the Armory has fewer laps to the mile and its corners are turned more-easily by a large group of men in a close race...
...devoted a major portion of his annual report to the state of the Philippine Islands, which the War Department governs. So thoroughly did Secretary Davis cover this subject that it seemed he must long have been girding himself to defend "General Wood's most fitting monument" from being transferred to control of the Department of the Interior-a transfer which has long been proposed and often postponed. Secretary Davis said: "Never has the government of the Philippine Islands been in so satisfactory and promising condition as today." And Secretary Davis said: "Had each of the departments of the United...
...difficult in a hospital for women to get healthy ovaries for transplanting. Many perfectly fertile women must have their glands removed for one cause or another. The tactful surgeon can easily persuade them to dispose of their useless organs to a sister unhappy in a different way. The actual transfer of the glands (cutting of the ovaries from one woman and stitching them into another) should not take more than 30 seconds...
...Nationalist Party-arrived in Washington to see President Coolidge. They had bundled themselves up in unwonted overcoats crossing the Pacific to a chilly continent. But they had smiled confidently on the trip because when they left Manila (TIME, Oct. 17). They had heard that President Coolidge favored transferring the Philippines from military rule under the War Department to civilian administration under a special bureau of the Interior Department. This transfer was second only to Island Independence in the hearts of Statesmen Quezon and Osmena...
When Statesmen Quezon and Osmena saw and talked with President Coolidge they were disappointed. President Coolidge had changed his mind, he said, about transfer from military to civilian administration, just yet. True, the Philippines need much of a civilian nature-in agriculture, education, road building- but President Coolidge thought advisors from the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Interior and Commerce could furnish such help at once without necessitating a transfer...