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Dates: during 1930-1939
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. . . The lungs normally excrete almost a quart of water a day, roughly 1% ounces an hour. Horn playing is not normal breathing, and in two hours' playing time a horn will act as a condenser and easily catch a glassful of water from the lungs, sir, not spit!
Your article on schoolmarm Campbell's one-room Iowa school brings back many, fond memories. I spent the first eight years of my schooling in just such an institution including the black stove in the centre of the room. Such an educational beginning has always seemed to me to...
TIME (Nov. 27, p. 56) refers to a coin-operated phonograph as a "juke box." Since Gainesville is - if not the birthplace - at least the incubator and nursery for the term, I feel a more-or-less fatherly interest in it and ask that you conform to our usage in...
On the vast, waxy-gleaming floor of the East Room, where Mrs. John Adams once hung the White House wash, stood an enormous Christmas tree. This was the public tree, trimmed in white snow and white lights. Upstairs in the second-floor corridor stood the family tree, brilliant with colored...
New York City a Congressional Medal for her work in Puerto Rico as an Army nurse 40 years ago during the Spanish-American War, recalled, "I tried to enlist, but was taken with an attack of mumps before I could do it."