Word: parents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month one parent cabled that, war or no war, he would feel better if the college finished the year at his estate. Belora Villa, in Greenwich, Conn. Thereupon the Misses Burgess and Lux packed the Czech girls off to their homes and Geneva College for Women sailed bag and baggage for Boston. Last week the temporarily transplanted college began to explore educational and social opportunities in the more harmonious atmosphere of Greenwich...
...ungrammatical grocer's clerk, Gregory Parent, recounted to Garland some queer doings of his late wife, Violet. Guided by the spirit of a dead Indian named Two Bear, Violet Parent for nine years had led gullible neighbors through cactus, poison oak and 3,000 miles of broiling California sunshine. Their reward was to find money in rusty cans and rotted pocketbooks, which the Parents kept. Also found were 1,500 crude lead crosses (Mrs. Parent's first husband was a metal worker). The Parents claimed that these crosses were Indian relics...
...heart has to be trimmed, for it spreads so rapidly that if left alone it would fill the laboratory in a year. At present Dr. Carrel is continuing experiments with Colleague Charles Augustus Lindbergh on the "perfusion pump" (TIME, June 13), which keeps other disembodied organs alive outside the parent body for indefinite periods of time. Next July Dr. Carrel expects to return to his native France...
Cinema, always the most open-handed U. S. industry, outdid itself in 1937. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp. alone paid 240 salaries of $15,000 or more, and M. G. M. and its parent company, Loew's Inc., paid the two biggest salaries of all: $1,296,503 in salary and bonus to Production Executive Louis B. Mayer, $694,123 to Loew's Vice President J. Robert Rubin. Loew's President Nicholas M. Schenck got $489,602. Highest paid performers: Actress Greta Garbo, $472,499; Actor Fredric March (who deserted Hollywood for Broadway...
Newest member of the rapidly growing sulfanilamide family is a little number called N¹ dodecanoylsulfanilamide. It is a combination of the parent drug with part of a fat. Last week at the Baltimore meeting of the American Chemical Society Dr. Moses Leverock Crossley, director of Calco Chemical Co. at Bound Brook, N. J., announced that the new drug had successfully checked the growth of tuberculosis in guinea pigs...