Word: developers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to become a serious contender for the championship, Mitchell must find or develop another pitcher. A1 Colwell, veteran catcher, has an excellent slow ball and slight curve, but his ability to last nine innings is uncertain. With Dick Walsh and Don Prouty evidently unable to make the grade, Mitchell's only alternative is Slim Curtiss, who hurled winning ball for the undefeated Freshman nine last year...
...college students of a new, powerful but poisonous brain stimulant called Benzedrine last week kept college directors of health in dithers of worry. Cases of over-dosage have been uncovered at the Universities of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Chicago. Elsewhere students who, while cramming for final examinations, collapse, faint, develop insomnia, or show a slowed pulse rate are under suspicion of using the substance. They call it "pepper-up," "pep pills...
Boston Beriberi. In Boston Drs. Soma Weiss & Robert W. Wilkins found numerous "alcoholics, diabetics, food cranks and pregnant women" who suffered from "rapid heart rate, enlarged heart, shortness of breath, attacks of asthma." Their skins were usually warm and red. These people were "especially prone to develop broncho-pneumonia." They suffered, the Boston doctors decided with astonishment, from beriberi, a disease due to malnutrition. It is common in the Orient, especially in Java, had never before been recognized in the U. S. Cure: vitamin...
...good acting and sparkling humor soon overcome this drawback. Loretta Young plays the part of an heiress who decides to throw some of the publicity which has been hounding her over to Tyronne Power, a clever and particularly offending reporter. With this as its basis, the picture proceeds to develop to a high level of comedy...
Speakers at the meeting include Mayor LaGuardia and Undersecretary of the Interior Charles West. According to the telegram sent by the League to President Conant, the sponsors are working "to develop constructive interest in public service...