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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year an improved extract was made from the urine of pregnant mares. In capsule form it can be taken orally. In a recent Harper Hospital Bulletin, Dr. Sandweiss reported that he began testing equine anthelone on 50 patients nine months ago. He will not announce findings until he can be sure whether the ulcers will recur. But his ultimate hope is to correct one of nature's ironies-the irony of making men especially subject to ulcers, then providing the possible cure in the glands of women...
...Wizard. Appling has been celebrating his 40th birthday for several years now. The evidence indicates that he was born in High Point, N.C., some 42 or 43 years ago, moved with his family to Atlanta, played shortstop at Fulton High and at Oglethorpe University (where he also played football). He left Oglethorpe after two years to play baseball with the Atlanta Crackers, and the White Sox snapped him up during his first season...
...years ago, on "Appling Day" in Chicago, his fellow players gave him a watch inscribed: "To Old Aches & Pains-from the Boys." Luke spends an hour or so on the rubbing table before every game. He had no injuries and few complaints in 1942 and his batting average that year skidded to a feeble .262. Next year his aches & pains, real and imaginary, were up to standard and his average soared to .328. Trying to explain his hypochondria, Luke says: "You get a little thing here & there, up & down, something that don't look so bad at first...
...business to study drainage, zoning, prevailing winds, taxes and prospects for taxes, new developments and proposals for new highways & byways in the county. Before designing the house itself he would cram his head with tables of construction costs (still more than double what they were ten years ago), master the rudiments of architecture, and learn to speak knowingly of furring and flashing, soffits and reveals muntins and mullions, gambrels, spandrels, hips and door butts...
...least a servant or two to keep it up. Furthermore, it got that spacious look by having a lot of unused space, which Grandmother could afford when her house was built. Perhaps the home-builder should try something new. Flat-roofed, wide-windowed homes that looked queer ten years ago have since become a decorative part of the residential landscape Every major school of architecture in th U.S. emphasizes the modern, and thi year every honor award presented by thi American Institute of Architects in thi residential field went to a modern house...