Word: various
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Woman who is sorry about it" does not know what she is talking about. I have had many experiences of various kinds and I am sure it is quite true what my grandmother used to say: "If women behaved men would have...
...manner. Some of their people are bound to have an idiosyncrasy for the smoke, just as other people are sickened by strawberries, bananas or tomatoes, by plant pollens, by cocain or morphine. Just why, scientists have not yet learned. It is impossible to measure the poison liberated by the various irritants. But by combining the technique of pharmacology, immunology and bacteriology and working from a chemical viewpoint, slow progress to discovery is being made, said former Dean Arthur I. Kendall of Northwestern University Medical School. Serums are proving useful...
...upon the tiny film lenses. These act as policemen, guiding each light ray to its own place on the sensitive emulsion; making that place more or less transparent according to the light rays that come in. There is no color in the finished film. It is a pattern of various degrees of transparency and opaqueness. If run off in an ordinary projector, it would throw the ordinary black and white picture on the screen. But if the color filter is inserted, each minute transparent or opaque space on the film will be directed by the microscopic lenses through...
...Latest Department of Commerce figures show for various denominations: Congregational...................................... 901,846 Protestant Episcopal ...........................1,858,966 Disciples of Christ.............................. 1,377,595 Northern Baptist Convention............ 1,290,438 Presbyterian......................................... 1,894,000 Methodist Episcopal Church, South..................................... 2,487,694 Methodist Episcopal Church, North...................................... 4,080,777 Jewish................................................... 4,087,357 American Baptist Association............... 117,858 Church of God, Holiness............................ 2,278 Free Church of God in Christ...
...lumberman, art collector, philanthropist; of old age; in Minneapolis. Once a peddler of grindstones to farmers, he was recently said to have a fortune of $100,000,000, much of which he gave to the city of Minneapolis (The Walker Art Galleries, the Public Library, etc.) and to various charities...