Word: birmingham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some years ago a German physician reported that workers in the mines could be relieved from fatigue by small doses of sodium phosphate. Now Professor Neville Moss of the University of Birmingham claims that miners working in a temperature of about 100° become exhausted less easily when drinking water that contains even 0.2% of common salt. The British physiologist, J. S. Haldane, explains this as due to the fact that the salt added to the drinking water makes up for that taken from the body by perspiration. Scientists are inclined to regard the matter as empirical and await controlled...
Officers. Bank underlings who tug valiantly at their bootstraps throughout the land were again encouraged by the Association's annual bow in their direction.-For President of the A. B. A. was chosen the noted Alabama banker, Oscar Wells, President of the First National Bank of Birmingham. Born in a lopsided Missouri log cabin, Mr. Wells had tilled the soil, attended an obscure college, and risen from the springboard of his uncle's bank to be first Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Tex. He is rubicund yet determined; his rise has not been too meteoric...
...Birmingham, England, the Repertory Theatre, putting Mr. G B. Shaw's The Philanderer into rehearsal, attempted to put H actresses into the corsets which art called for by the date of the play, "in the '80's." Bitterly the daughters of a new freedom complained to the director, and would not lace themselves "into straitjackets. The costumes were altered, realism being abandoned...
...Think imperially" and "I never like being hit without hitting back" were two characteristic utterances of Birmingham's hero...
...followed by Atlanta at 20.5?, Minneapolis at 20.2? and Birmingham, Boston, Denver, New York, Philadelphia, Wilmington at 20c. Average price in 30 representative cities...