Word: types
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been spanned by land-planes flown by men, women, and once by a pilot flying blind. It has been spanned by a glider towed by a plane. Last week it was spanned for the first time by a flying boat-a twin-motored Consolidated PBY-1 of the "type used by the Navy on its various mass junkets to Hawaii (TIME...
...convention announced new discoveries about the hardening of arteries; Rudolph John Anderson, biochemist; Dr. Ross Granville Harrison, biologist who began the artificial cultivation of living tissues, for which the Rockefeller Institute's Alexis Carrel is more famed; Rockefeller Institute's Francis Peyton Rous. whose discovery of a type of cancer (Rous's sarcoma) which can be transplanted from one chicken to another gave students of cancer a powerful new instrument of research...
...Wyckoff, sweating on one of the hottest days Denver ever experienced, "a new field of research into the mechanism and control of disease is opened up by the possibility of treating its cause as a pure chemical compound. It is not unreasonable to hope that experiments of this type will some day indicate a new way in which the body can protect itself against dis-ease...
...joined in buying a 50-mi. strip of land down Long Island from Flushing to Lake Ronkonkoma. On it they built a narrow, wriggling ribbon of concrete and macadam with bridges over every crossroad. Total cost: $3,500,000. The Long Island Motor Parkway was thus the first modern type highway. In 1908, 1909 & 1910 Mr. Vanderbilt & friends used five miles of the road together with parts of Jericho Turnpike and Plainview Road for the first of the famed Vanderbilt Cup Races, the eleventh of which will take place next week at Roosevelt Raceway...
...block-deep plot, almost the entire ground floor of the new museum will be walled with glass, so that pedestrians on 53rd Street will be able to see temporary exhibitions as in a gigantic showcase. Upper floors will be rearranged with movable screens to suit whatever type of exhibition is on the calendar. Higher up still will be a film library-one of the museum's most important adjuncts-with a discreet projection room that will hold just 50 seats. In the basement will be a lecture room to hold more than 500 people. The Museum's board...