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...idea of a "machine-made house" may not be accepted quickly. But Architect Fisher feels that when people see such homes are cheaper, more attractive, more comfortable to live in, prejudice will diminish. He points out that mass-production has increased rather than hurt the functional and esthetic beauty of automobiles. Large advertising campaigns will be put on and when competitors arrive, the structural features of various types of houses may be as widely-known and discussed as Floating Power and Free Wheeling...
...Brookline, Mass., another jockey performed the same feat: George Herbert ("Pete") Bostwick won the Metropolitan Driving Club, a 1-1/16-mi. flat race, on J. F. Byers'. Glaneur, then the Chamblet Memorial steeplechase on Mrs. Ambrose Clark's Madrigal II. There was only one thing to diminish Jockey Bostwick's satisfaction at having equalled such a celebrated record. He had done it once before. Two weeks ago at Belmont Park, L. I., he rode...
Over 15% of a normal "Amos 'n' Andy program is Pepsodent ballyhoo and to cut this down to 5% would clearly diminish, perhaps spoil, the sales value of the program...
...earth were to pass through the nucleus of a comet, only a small number of these chunks of matter would hit the Earth, and, at their average velocity of 20 miles per second, the friction of the atmosphere would be sufficient to destroy the smaller chunks entirely, and to diminish the size of the large ones to such an extent that the effect would be largely that of harmless fireworks. However, it is probable that a few large pieces of metal, having diameters as much as a mile long, would reach the Earth and cause considerable damage. As a matter...
...large numbers of microfilariae art still present, the individual should be regarded as a dangerous carrier and isolated until the parasites diminish or disappear...