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...appears to be a way of avoiding concrete suggestions, but unfortunately it is the public judgement of values which must be changed: and it cannot be changed if public opinion is not conscious of the role it is playing. Keys and ribbons and other tinsel will be of no avail if the effectual public opinion remains grossly ignorant of the error of its ways...
Lafayette, unbeaten, took on the Leopard's spots and sought to pounce on Penn, also unbeaten. To no avail. A field goal by Chief Leopard Berry was wiped out by a pass by Chief Quaker McGraw, caught and carried by one Joe Laird. The Leopards went back to Easton, dark bruises mingled with their spots and the score: Penn 6, Lafayette 3. The Quakers rejoiced in being the only unbeaten, untied Eastern team of the season, Pittsburgh having tied Penn's nearest rival, Syracuse...
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...