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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were the sea beaches fringing New York City. On Staten Island, believers arose at dawn, thinking that the earlier the dip the more sure the cure. Method of seeking cures- for anything from headache to cancer-is to bathe thrice, praying the while. But the old and the obese content themselves with a few splashes. Less credulous Catholics have the full approval of the Church in offering novenas (nine-day prayers) in honor of the Virgin, and going on solemn Assumption processions through their parishes. The Assumption is one of six holy days of obligation for U.S. Catholics, on which...
...things in his own way forthright James Rand Jr. concluded that two short minutes of dignified publicity in the half-hour "March of TIME" program would do more to sell his products than many minutes of high-pressure "blurbing" in a program less straightforward, businesslike and serviceable. He was content to pay for the full half-hour and let TIME'S editors carry on free-handed as of old. The program will come every Friday night at 8:30 p. m. (Eastern Standard Time), the same half-hour and the same Columbia coast-to-coast network over which TIME...
...applying for admission to William Jennings Bryan University, I am fully aware that the drinking of liquor of any alcoholic content whatsoever is not tolerated by the Institution. I hereby pledge myself to abstain totally from such indulgence in any degree, while a student in the University. ... I further pledge myself neither to smoke nor use tobacco or snuff in [the buildings] of the University; and should I indulge in the use of tobacco at all, I agree to confine myself to its use at the times and in the places designated. ... If a young woman, I pledge myself...
Making hay out of green cotton stalks was Chemist Hand's idea. Hay is good in proportion to its content of crude protein fat and carbohydrates. Chemist Hand subjected young cotton stalks to analyses, found them even richer than alfalfa...
...Since 1930 he has been director of the National Orchestra Association, which trains students in orchestra technique and conducting, presents them in concerts. The best pupils graduate into the big orchestras, to sit on chairs under great conductors as Leon Barzin's father did, as he was not content to do. This summer came the next step upward in Leon Barzin's career. Willem van Hoogstraten, official conductor of the Philharmonic-Symphony in its summer concerts at Lewisohn Stadium, was away on a fortnight's vacation. As guest conductor, Leon Barzin, 32, was called to give five...