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...pneumonia fund will be administered without constraint by Dr. William Hallock Park, professor since 1897 in New York University and director since 1894 of the New York Health Department Bureau of Laboratories. During the War A.E.F. medical officers esteemed highly the efficacious serums of this bureau and traveled miles to get them from supply depots. Dr. Park has characterized pneumonia as "probably about the worst disease we have left to conquer, aside from those which attack adults of comparatively advanced age. Pneumonia now kills more persons every year than tuberculosis. [The last thorough data (1923) gives the U. S. pneumonia...
When the Shenandoah, disemboweled like a silver minnow, fell into the Ohio valley, every newspaper in the U. S.-with one exception-shrieked in huge disaster headlines the record of that happening. Not since election day had such exclamatory "spreads" appeared on front pages. But one newspaper realized that constraint, in the face of enormous happenings, is more startling than noise; that gravity appalls more than exclamation points. This sheet, the Miami Herald, give the Shenandoah story a simple "one column" head and followed this clipped announcement with an account which ran without a break for 16 columns (two pages...
...abstention of the Socialist Deputies from the Chamber proceedings merely aggravated a state of enmity between them and the Fascisti; and, with lack of constraint on both sides, it is nothing short of a wonder that more blood has not flowed sideways through perforated veins...
...King sat down (more vivas). The Royal Family then returned to the Palace, many of the Senators and Deputies left immediately, but some of the young and ardent Fascisti had not finished. As soon as the wheels of the royal coaches had started to revolve, their constraint vanished and with relief akin to that felt after the passage of a thunderstorm they volleyed the Fascist hymn Giovinezza...
...Gray, in stating that American colleges have not been subjected to the rending forces that have torn intellectual Europe, is undeniably correct; but he does not carry his proposition through to its logical conclusion. The resentment at things as they are and the desperate desire for freedom from constraint, which to his mind make the attitude of the European student more promising than the unquestioning conformity of the young American, are induced by a set of most abnormal conditions, and must therefor partake somewhat of abnormality themselves. Realizing that conditions in Europe are far from healthy, Dr. Gray assumed...