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...Refrigerators will contain a violet-ray compartment for tenderizing meats and an ice-cube ejector worked by turning a crank...
Fluid milk is unfit for human consumption, says 75-year-old Dr. Horace Wendell Soper of St. Louis. As a onetime recorder of the GastroEnterological Association and chairman of A.M.A.'s section in that field, he cannot be dismissed as a crank. In 1941, after 47 years of practice, he retired, but soon returned to work because "I liked work better." He started damning fluid milk about 25 years ago, after 15 years of watching its effect in the human...
...land where freedom has long flourished, where the rattle of a tea service in any Bloomsbury drawing room will bring out a stouthearted supporter of a lost cause, was the fact that riots and bloodshed in India could not be dismissed solely as the work of a crank in a loincloth...
...about the back-to-nature mania of a city bred business man who buys a dilapidated farmhouse and then sees his hopes of an idyllic old age threatened, respectively, by a wife whose love for things rural extends very little beyond Central Park, a mortgage held by the neighborhood crank, and the explosion of a rich uncle myth into the reality of a parasitical poor relation...
...class tomorrow. The two have met twice before in university championship, and Bullitt has won by as eyelash each time. Don, incidentally, passed his physical test for the Marines yesterday morning. Although he was turned down when he applied the first times because of a defective left eye he crank carrot juice and milk, on the advice of the doctors, and passed with flying colors yesterday...