Word: originally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course of eight illustrated talks is to be given by K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, and geologist of the United States Geological survey, on the geologic history of mankind, presenting from the point of view of a geologist the known facts and scientific theories concerning the origin of the race and its prehistoric distribution upon the face of the earth...
...business or the investigator into business history. For the use of the former, provision is made--especially in the Baker Room of the Library--for the acquisition of the better sources of current information on finance, commodity movement, and the like, whether such material be of governmental or private origin. The Library believes its primary obligation that of creating and maintaining this assembly of reference data on contemporary business activity...
...they acquired virtually the sanctity of banknotes. Two of the drafts, indeed, were cashed before their illegitimate origin was discovered; on the third?the $225,000 draft to the Pueblo bank?the Chase bank refused payment in order to make a test case, go into court and turn the problem over to the law?or rather the lawyers? of the land. Certainly the defrauded banks were sadly tricked. On the other hand the innocently profiting banks have legally collected a legal debt and, considering the Bank of Telluride's condition, they perhaps received their money in the only manner that...
...scholar, researcher and executive, had the honor of being the Congress president. No one grudged him the position for Dr. Howell, 69, director of Johns Hopkins school of hygiene and public health, has been eminent in U. S. physiology for more than a generation. Among his fundamental contributions are origin of the red corpuscles of the blood, degeneration and regeneration of the nerve fibres, mechanism of sleep, relation of the inorganic salts of the blood to the heart beat, coagulation of blood, proteins of blood serum...
...issue of TIME for Aug. 5, it is stated in the review of The Eater of Darkness that Dadaism was "born at the Cabaret Voltaire, Paris, 1916." This would give rise to the erroneous impression that Dada was a movement of French origin...