Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some containing only one room and an attic. The village of Winlaton was the first major halt, for there Edward of Wales expected to find an old man .who had challenged him ?Frank McKay, a miner of 74. "I'll show you misery, Your Royal Highness!" he had written. "I challenge you to come...
Science and the sanctity of free speech were much discussed in Europe. Voltaire and Diderot had not written in vain. In England, Newman and Manning, hearing irreverences in the free speech, started the Oxford movement, which was simply a revitalized literal belief in such credos as the 39 Articles. Neither realized then that they had taken one of the many roads to Rome...
...County Medical Society last year set up a medical information bureau with lago Galdston as executive secretary. Last week the bureau, on the basis of reports made by 90 leading practitioners, issued to the papers a summary of 1928's medical progress. In the summary there was carefully written: "A third 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...
...this moment, sticking toothpicks into potatoes to make little men out of them, little men which he will stand on the table as a joke to the crew when they come down to "grub," and the laugh that will greet this prank is as good as given, written up, and wirelessed already. Such a laugh as it will be! Yesterday we saw some gulls, but we just laughed it off. 'All in the day's work,' the Captain said, and he was given a rousing cheer with nine skyrockets on the end for his plucky statement...
...exceptions taken by the letter appearing in these columns yesterday to the CRIMSON's objections to the plan of the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature which sets the written divisional examination in Junior year do not, the CRIMSON believes, reproach the validity of the main objection. This was, briefly, that to set an examination which shall serve solely as a voucher of understanding sufficient to permit intensive specialization makes the examination only something to be got out of the way as easily as possible...