Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...modern University must deal with modern problems. The function of the University as a public servant is liable to be forgotten in the endowed institution. As in the problems of legal aid and unemployment, so in medicine is the place of the Liberal University with the pioneer, rather than the antiquary...
...warn you, Mr. Lyons," he chaffed, "that your little daughter will probably turn out to be a Red Pioneer...
Died. Dame Mary Ann Dacomb Scharlieb, 85, first British woman to obtain M. D. and Master of Surgery degrees, pioneer medical worker for native women in India; of heart disease; in London...
...Havana with her 120 simians. Last week in her sumptuous Villa Palatino she died at the age of 65, cut off her unappreciative children without a single monkey, left the lot to be established by President Machado as an endowed and public Cuban monkeyhouse. "It was largely her pioneer work," said Director William Reid Blair of the New York Zoological Park (Bronx Zoo), "which influenced Professor Robert M. Yerkes, head of the Yale psychology department, to establish the Yale station for research on anthropoid apes at Orange Park, near Jacksonville, Fla., where a chimpanzee was born about two months...
...white man's great lines of migration across the continent to the western ocean were three: 1) the Oregon trail to the Northwest; 2) the pioneer route west to the Missouri River and over the Rockies to Great Salt Lake; 3) from Leavenworth southwest by the Santa Fe trail to the southern Sierra. Where the oxcart went, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown has decreed, there shall the commercial airplane first go-until men learn to travel through the air as safely and economically as they can move on earth. Result: migratory lines Nos. 2 & 3, plus a third "natural...