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...long-drawn-out, expensive and-in almost half the cases-no good. First a patient must be given a score of scratch tests on his arm to find out what pollens or other proteins poison him. Then for several months he must take a course of "desensitizing" injections to accustom him to growing doses of those irritants. Sometimes the injections give patients all the uncomfortable symptoms of asthma...
Monday evening, the team scrimmaged the Junior Olympics in Boston to accustom themselves further to the Garden ice, and Hodder spent most of the time working on his up-and-coming Sophomore line and the constantly changing second line. As things stand now, this latter trio will probably start the evening as an all-St. Paul's group of Gordie McGrath at center with Demi Lloyd and Bob Cox on the wings. Dick Noone, who figured in one of the two Harvard goals at New Haven, and Bill Claflin, will probably see action before the end of the evening, however...
...stir up anti-British feeling and crowds of students demonstrated in almost every Italian city, officially Italy did nothing. At a mass meeting in the Piazza Venezia to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the Italian Empire, Benito Mussolini told a none too enthusiastic crowd: "After my speeches you must accustom yourself to my silence. Only facts will break...
...transept of Dartmouth College's vast, cruciform gymnasium at Hanover, N. H. lies the fastest foot-racing track in the world. It was laid seven years ago on the college's 30-year-old indoor cinder track so that Dartmouth boys competing in big indoor meets could accustom themselves to board tracks. But in building it, Dartmouth's Buildings Superintendent Willard Gooding made a few constructive errors...
...successive nights and mornings, the Air Corps' Brig. General Arnold N. Krogstad sent Boeing B-17 ("Flying Fortress") and Douglas B18 bombers flying 180 miles southward from Langley Field, Va., to Fort Bragg. Ordered to fly at 4,000 feet the first night, to accustom the observers, bombers later went up to 18,000, 20,000 and 24,000 feet heights now practicable thanks to a new, secret bomb sight. Without fail, civilian groundlings heard or saw, got warnings to Fort Bragg within three minutes. On a headquarters defense map, lighted in red and green, winking bulbs "tracked...