Word: welled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Royal Family. The enthusiasm of Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania for her son-in-law King Alexander is well known. Her Majesty has said...
...concerned they are not to marry people in church who have not been baptized. I have been criticized and called a narrow-minded ecclesiastic, and been told that I ought to be stopped. Well, stop me. I am going on until I am stopped...
...discovery (in cancer) is the demonstration that the combination of ultraviolet radiation with a substance which may give rise to cancer in a suitable animal, such as tar, results in an increased effectiveness of the agent producing the cancer [i. e., tar]. This is an experimental confirmation of the well-known fact that cancer of the skin is more frequent among those exposed to excessive quantities of sunlight such as sailors or those engaged in agricultural pursuits. The explanation of the way in which such radiation acts is still to be explained. In the light of this, warning must...
...sight of Staten Island, Jan. 10. (Via Ferryboat Irma. Same date) . . . I wish I could tell you something of the spirit that prevails on board. No sacrifice is too great for the boys to make, and they do it with a grin a mile long on their faces, too. Well, perhaps not quite a mile, but an awfully long grin, anyway. Just to show you what I mean, Old Lummy ("Arthur") Welsbach the cook is, at this moment, sticking toothpicks into potatoes to make little men out of them, little men which he will stand on the table...
...holdings of Allegheny Corp. include shares in Chesapeake Corp., Nickel Plate, Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh, Chesapeake & Ohio and Erie, all of which have been Van Sweringen stocks. The corporation is also empowered to make further investments, principally in railroad stocks. It can therefore function as a railroad investment trust as well as a Van Sweringen holding company. It has, however, no power to operate railroad properties or to engage in banking...