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Monocles? Junker Cabinet of Monocles is too apt a phrase to discard. The members all act like Junkers; they look as if they should wear monocles. Actually none of them do, and only one member is a true Junker in the narrowest sense: a Protestant landowner from East Prussia, Minister of the Interior Baron Wilhelm von Gayl...
...hysterograph or womb register-has already proved useful to obstetrics. There are a dozen drugs commonly used to save a woman pain and exertion during her labor. The Dodek device indicates just how the uterine musculature reacts to each drug, tells when it is advisable to use one, to discard another...
...evil days." Nobody will dispute his statement. The front page of the issue in which the London Times described the victory at Trafalgar was covered with advertisements, modest and factual. The modern newspaper and periodical is plastered with notices which appeal primarily to the emotions. We are asked to discard our reasoning faculties and buy a certain mattress because a certain society leader allowed one to be photographed in her house; to buy a certain cigarette because a movie actress finds its advertisements a convenient vehicle for her publicity; to buy a new car because the paint job resembles...
...action. Editors began to tut-tut him as a presidential possibility. Soon Mr Baker dropped his League issue like a hot cake assured the country that he would not take the U. S. in even if he had the power to do so, advised Democrats to discard the question as a partisan issue. Most people were convinced that this about-face meant that Newton Baker was a real, if inactive, candidate for the Presidency...
...essential to avoid 'blind alleys' in a business career," he continued, "but men too often discard obscure jobs because of their fear of 'blind alleys,' and thus lose that valuable experience in the elementary phases of a business which is so valuable to the executive later...