Word: calcium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dictum on Harvard and Yale--that "now they are nothing more than institutions of learning"--may be accepted not as a graceful and suave bow to two great universities but as an evidence of bovine condolence. Each having lost a football game Harvard and Yale are out of the calcium until the 1928 gridiron season. They may remain huddled in their eastern reaches while the Big Ten fights its giant's battle. Life will go on life is like that--but Harvard and Yale are through...
...downwards, the other up, each to remain in the public memory as long as is customary for fallen idols: for, to assume the pessimistic attitude and to predict the inevitable, each will be a fallen idol in a surprisingly short time, and he whose arm extended aloft in the calcium glare last night is destined to as deep an obliviou as he who failed to heed the final count. But such philosophy and pessimism is dealing in futurities by four hours, for if the comedy is postponed on account of rain, obituaries, and paeons, including editorials, will...
...Inducer: Hens fed limestone (calcium carbonate) lay more eggs. ?G. Davis Buckner, University of Kentucky...
...months. Last week in Chicago, little Harmon Loeb, aged five weeks, walked unaided across a room. Dr. Carl Loeb sees in his son's feat no miracle, says.: "We bathe Harmon every day for ten or fifteen minutes in ultraviolet rays [which] help the blood absorb the calcium in food, thereby building bone. The baby is given a series of exercises three times a day designed to strengthen the muscles . . . sleeps on a bread board with a pad and pillow...
...players at the head table last year had calcium lights over them, broadcasting apparatus before them, and adulation all around them. They were presented with gold watches and other "expressions of esteem." Among those seated at the guest table was Mr. C. C. Pyle--now commonly designated in the news columns as "Cold Cash" Pyle whom the redoubtable "Red," Grange insisted on having at his side. As a matter of fact, various sport promoters helped to promote this $10-a-plate banquet by taking tickets therefor...