Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lungs and cause pneumonia, warns against all mentholated preparations for infants' colds because the menthol may cause spasms in the infants' throats and choke them. To alleviate colds Dr. Hamburger advises rest in bed and a simple prescription equivalent of which is an aspirin tablet with a cup of weak coffee every four hours and a glass of water in between.* Nonetheless, he concludes: "More can be done specifically for pernicious anemia than for a cold in the head...
From then on Mr. Rockefeller took the game seriously. Whenever he missed a putt he would practice until one ball plunked the bottom of the cup. He never walked around the course. As soon as he hit a shot, a caddy would bring him a bicycle. Tucking his feet on the handlebars he would have the caddy trundle him up the fairway. Unlike his friend Andrew Carnegie, who got hopping mad when he misplayed, pious Golfer Rockefeller merely bowed his head at adversity clucked: "Shame, shame, shame...
Diving championships, usually held in conjunction with the swimming meet, have been postponed until shortly after the Spring vacation. All Freshmen are eligible to enter this event and to try for the cup which is given to the most polished performer in the Class...
...deserted their cosy home outside Philadelphia and their fox terrier named "Wimby," junketed to Manhattan for the National Indoor Championships. "Midge" Van Ryn was well prepared for action. All winter she had practiced on the indoor courts of Socialite George D. Widener and Banker Fitz Eugene Dixon, onetime Davis Cup captain, who employs her husband...
...match finished, Midge stood by to watch her man and Gregory Mangin (who later won the men's singles) play Karl Schroeder and James Gilbert Hall in the final of the men's doubles. Though a Davis Cup player for the past seven years, John Van Ryn's marked ability in doubles surprisingly vanishes in singles. Last week even his doubles form was way off. Having collected the silverware for the family, Mrs. Van Ryn sighed at her husband's defeat, remarked: "Tennis is great for domestic happiness...