Word: various
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Keith said that he hopes to appoint the Business manager by the end of the week. Competitions for the various boards will follow...
...theatre's great days give the authors a chance to bring back scenes from a host of famous shows, from The Easiest Way and The Pink Lady to What Price Glory? and The Vortex. Every so often the pageant is halted because the theatre is rumored dead of various causes: Roosevelt I, the automobile, the war-tax, the movies, the radio, Roosevelt...
When death came to his Aunt Sue, of whom he was very fond, he recalls: "I strove to bury sorrow in work, continuing my investigations of the various rots of the sweet potato." Some cuttings from The World Was My Garden...
...interests of Edward Lee Thorndike, famed psychologist and educational expert of Columbia University's Teachers College, range from the pleasant and unpleasant sound of words to the "goodness of living" in various U. S. cities. Lately, while investigating "the pecuniary rewards of great abilities," Professor Thorndike took a look at the pay of top-notch scientists employed in industry. In American Men of Science he found 72 industrial savants whose names were starred for distinguished research (by vote of their colleagues). He then hunted up as many of their salaries as he could find in the Treasury report...
Sulfanilamide tablets and injections work wonders with gonorrhea, meningitis and various streptococcic diseases. But sulfanilamide combined with other drugs may prove fatal, as Dr. Samuel Evans Massengill, 67-year-old pharmaceutical manufacturer of Bristol, Tenn., discovered last year when his "Elixir of Sulfanilamide" (sulfanilamide dissolved in diethylene glycol) killed over 100 people (TIME, Dec. 20). Kin of the victims promptly started civil suits, to date have collected more than $150,000 damages from S. E. Massengill...