Search Details

Word: massachusetts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

After getting a Leipzig Ph.D., Stone returned to Massachusetts Agricultural College and began to teach a generation of botanists new conceptions of plant disease and care. He helped to found Massachusett's system of tree wardens, went about the U.S. diagnosing tree ailments, usually at a glance, and advising communities how to preserve their leanness from gas, electricity, insects, fungi, etc. A good hand with chisel and trowel, Stone devised methods of repairing trees. His teachings stimulated a host of tree surgeons and researchers, who learned to treat trees as living things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Friend of Trees | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

Speaking last night at the Faneuil Hall exercises to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Massachusett's constitutional ratification, George H. Earle '11, Governor of Pennsylvania, New Dealer, and keen presidential aspirant, disclaimed that he had a desire to be the 1940 Democratic nominee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Earle Denies Being Presidential Timber | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...Curley and Hearst dominated State Legislature that enacted the law, not the University. Let the Attorney General prove the dangers to Massachusett's republican form of government inherent in teaching theories of earth origin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BR'ER RABBIT LIE LOW | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

...where the Silver Shirts are relatively strong in number. Asheville believed he would return to examine the financial ruins of his publishing house. But whether he did or not, Asheville knew it would hear of him again, for last week the special House of Representatives' committee chairmanned by Massachusett's McCormack announced that it would begin in Asheville shortly its investigation of Nazi propaganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Shirt Business | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...TAGUE OF MASSACHUSETT: "We must go on record as either opposing a bonus bill or accepting this gag rule. ... I want to say without fear of contradiction that in my ten years as a Member of this House this is the most cowardly piece of legislation that has ever been put to the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOLDIER BONUS: 40 Minutes | 3/31/1924 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Next