Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Work Done. Last week the U. S. Senate...
...Work Done. Last week the U. S. House of Representatives...
...ramshackle bacteriological laboratory of the rich University of Chicago, where often "rats destroy in a night the fruits of six months' work,"* Dr. Isidore Sydney Falk has discovered, the university announced last week, the germ which causes influenza. It is the polymorphous streptococcus. When the news reached London, where investigators have been at the same problem, the London Times called Dr. Falk from bed to answer its transAtlantic telephone questions. It was 11 a. m. in London. 5 a. m. in Chicago. It was a half-hour later when Dr. Falk returned...
...might Sugar Lobbyist Herbert Conrad Lakin of Manhattan have paraphrased the adage when, again last week, he faced the Senate Lobby Committee. President of Cuba Co. with its $165,000,000 invested in sugar plantations, mills, railroads, Lobbyist Lakin went to Washington the first of the year to work against an increased sugar tariff. Cuban planters chipped in to pay his expenses. President Machado of Cuba blessed his activities. So disarmingly had he told his story before that the Lobby Committee praised him for his "frankness" (TIME...
...might have seemed so. Here are the case histories of 15 women whom Author Theodore Dreiser has known, pondered over and laboriously written about. Conscientious and truthful according to his lights, Author Dreiser tries to give a complete report; in the oblique way in which such attempts often work out, he succeeds in showing himself as one of the most sympathetic of inquiring reporters...