Word: developing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Cannon opined that other heart stimulants like adrenalin must also develop in other parts of the vegetative system. Hence his elegant operation...
...away from Washington. With Lord William Percy of England and Dr. Frank Michler Chapman of the American Museum of Natural History, he has studied birds in South America. As president of the Connecticut State Board of Fisheries & Game and of a joint commission on Forests & Wild Life, he helped develop his own State's efficient conservation policy. In a report to a conservation group he once wrote: "Soft living is conducive to soft bodies and dull minds. . . . There is one effective cure for this tendency to Idleness-back to the country, breathe fresh air, drink pure water...
...took Ared White three hundred pages to develop the intricacies of the plot so it can not possibly be done here, and anyway it would spoil the fun of the thing. Roughly the story deals with a brave young American who unravels the devious threads of a great Boche plan to sterm Paris. The sex interest is supplied by a Spanish vixen and a handsome, undecipherable German girl. The former has sold herself to the Vaterland. Her chief job is to lure innocent American spys into the tolls of the German intelligence office through her unlimited supply of passion...
...writing is labored and strives too diligently for effect. Chapters have a way of ending in the "it was the searfaced faced man" style. White has taken great pains to develop his characters, but with the exception of the German Sirwolten be has failed in most instances...
...late-lamented scrubwomen. She suggested that the $25,000 which was left the University by the late A. E. Pillsbury to combat feminism, should be devoted in part to returning the scrubwomen to their homes, in accordance with Mr. Pillsbury's wish that "college authorities create and develop sound public opinion against impairment of the family by taking women out of the home...