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Last week at the annual Pittsburgh meeting of the Air Hygiene Foundation, the beaming Clarks exhibited two of their brood of 85 windowed rabbits. In one rabbit's ear were tiny black specks of silica dust, which had been dropped into the raw tissue last June. Purpose of the experiment is to discover whether irritation of silica grains alone produces silicosis (dread "stony" lung disease often acquired by miners of silica) or whether complicating factors, such as mild tuberculosis, are necessary to bring on the disease...
Plymouth, Chrysler's popular-priced car, looks like the rest of the brood, is roomier (12 more cu. ft. inside), longer (117 in. wheelbase), flares out at the bottom instead of in. The two series, Road-king and De Luxe, sell...
...Most versatile of the brood, Vitamin A is the only one which is synthesized by animals from their plant food. It is found in the livers and yellow body fat of most animals, can be stored up by man for many months. For adequate production and storage of vitamin A, a diet should be abundant in "thin green leaves," bright yellow fruits, vegetables such as carrots, corn, sweet potatoes. Vitamin A prevents night blindness, a failing as common in the U. S. today as in ancient Egypt, where diet-wise physicians cured thousands of cases with liver. Few persons realize...
Born a slave, liberated in 1865 when his master, a Confederate captain, returned from the war, Richard Wright had his resolute, ambitious mother to thank for his education. She and her free brood tramped 150 miles from Cuthbert to Atlanta, Ga. There he worked his way through Atlanta University (1876) and became first president of Georgia State Industrial College. He spent many a vacation taking short courses at Harvard, University of Chicago. Oxford, topped them off with a night banking course in the University of Pennsylvania-and so, after 30 years of academic work, became a banker...
While his fellow writers fled San Francisco to die in obscurity and in exile, found religions in New Jersey swamps, become monks, build roads, brood bitterly over their frustration, Poet Miller went back to the frontier, settled on a pleasant 100-acre Oakland hilltop, where he erected statues of Frémont, Moses, Browning, charmed club women with demonstrations of rainmaking, which consisted of chanting gibberish and turning on a concealed sprinkler on the roof. In general Joaquin Miller's career suggests that of the whole caboodle; he was perhaps the only one who really belonged there...