Word: developers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...champion hackney. Interest in the jumpers centered this year on the Irish Free State's string. Outstanding jumper from Ireland was Shannon Power, a 5-year-old chestnut gelding, winner of the $1,000 International Military Sweepstakes. As a 4-year-old-the bones of Irish horses develop early, thanks to limestone in their native soil-Shannon Power (named after a power-house on the Shannon river) won the Davis Cup at Toronto last year, starred in other international contests. His rider, small curly-haired Captain Daniel J. Corry of the Irish Free State Army, takes special pride...
...States have not given full respect to flavor. That is one place where we have failed. Meals in the United States are generally more balanced than those in Europe, but we have not given full respect to the art of bringing out the best in food. We ought to develop the respect and almost love for tood that one finds in the average European maitre d'hotel...
After a little more than two years the exclamations of ecstatic admiration and the charges of pampering are died away, and the designers of Harvard's House Plan may look with experience into an eternity to discover how the system may develop and succeed. Time has shown that the success lies not in effulgent gold, nor even in extra plumbing and panelled libraries, but mainly in the personalities of the resident tutors. On their backs falls the responsibility for making the plan more than a glorified house party, the Houses more than fraternities with inadequate black-balling systems...
...Powers plants, which use thousands of photographs and rods of photographic printing paper, mechanized photography. He perfected a process of making photographic paper in long rolls similar to wrapping paper, invented a device to snip off lengths of paper as they were exposed, send them to a developing tank. A friend of the Brothers Powers is Henry Collier Wright, president of the Queensboro Tuberculosis Association. Mr. Wright last year heard Dr. Jay Arthur Myers of the University of Minnesota medical school declare that If every case of incipient tuberculosis in children could be discerned, doctors could ultimately wipe...
...several years surgeons of the Mayo Clinic "have been becoming more & more fearful of operating on the keen, nervous, active, hard-living, 'go-getting', sales-manager type of man" who comes to them with an intestinal ulcer. That type is apt to develop another ulcer soon after the operation. Especially is this so if the man is of Jewish ancestry. The Jew seems to be particularly subject to a severe type of recurrent ulcer. Dr. Walter Clement Alvarez, Mayo internist, makes these observations in a thoroughgoing review of peptic ulcer, published last week in the American Journal...