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Elsewhere. Scientific investigators elsewhere, dealing with the problem of rickets, have made further discoveries as to the value of various curative oils. At the University of Wisconsin, it was found that fats other than cod-liver oil, which are ordinarily of no avail in affecting the disease, possess curative properties after they have been subjected to ultraviolet rays. In Manhattan, one Alfred F. Hess and other researchers noted that the potency of cod-liver oil to prevent rickets is greatly increased after the oil has undergone radiation...
...however, entirely dissipated by the trend of events. The German loan "went across big." So thoroughly had the syndicate done its work, and so attractive did the offering appear to U. S. investors generally, that the issue was very heavily oversubscribed; and more bonds were demanded than were avail- able to deliver...
...ridden with a great weight of sleep, as one who has tasted mandragora, so that his eyes glue themselves together, and all his functions are dried up in drowsiness, the blood of a rat poured into his veins may avail to remove the curse and call back the soul into his body...
...these men come to the CRIMSON office between 3 and 4 o'clock any afternoon for the next week they will be told how to avail themselves of the absentee voter's privileges, no matter what state they live in. These office hours are being conducted by a non-partisan committee...
...effort made by any of these organizations to call to the attention of all students who were eligible to vote at the coming election the rules governing absent voters. If a united movement were undertaken to point this out, to encourage all men who have become of age, to avail themselves of the opportunity to vote, the clubs would be accomplishing a great service. It also seems to me that a straw vote would be a good measure to stimulate interest, to secure a wider participation in political affairs. When I was at college the fashion used...