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...have formed committees in several large cities to help their unfortunate colleagues. During the next three years, say these physicians, no more than 2,500 European physicians will come to settle in the U. S. and the U. S. is certainly large enough to absorb them. Many of these men are outstanding scientists, and will contribute greatly to the progress of American medicine...
Higher compression translates into more efficient operation because it gets greater power punch on less fuel. It also necessitates a stronger and heavier motor to absorb the increased shock. For this reason, and because Diesels have not yet reached the mass production stage, they are costly. A Ford truck gasoline motor, for example, costs about $150, a comparable Diesel about...
...adaptable, resourceful, readily absorb and enjoy responsibility. While I could hope that Frank Capra, Walter Lippmann, Eduard Benes, Rudy Vallee, Mrs. Roosevelt, Max Reinhardt, James E. Cain, Grover Whalen, Madame Chiang Kaishek, E. Alexander Powell or James Norman Hall are in need of an aide, I am entirely unencumbered and would gladly go anywhere in the world where I could find congenial surroundings and work. I have lived abroad...
...Miss Moog's attraction might well open "a villa in Washington" with German money. There she would explain Naziism to Congressmen, military and naval officers, newspapermen. Although she and Dr. Griebl did nothing and heard nothing more about it, they continued to visit Berlin night spots and absorb champagne at the German Government's expense. Miss Moog's prolonged account of this so vexed long-legged Judge Knox that he finally slapped the bench, barked: "Stop that...
Admitting that they were mostly the "atmosphere" in Vinton Freedley's current stage hit "Leave it to Me," the two girls said that they were trying to absorb some of the Harvard "atmosphere...