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Debts, The convention enthusiastically applauded Pennsylvania's squat Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, longtime Secretary of Labor now awaiting retrial for his part in a Moose national lottery, when he said that the debtor nations "could in a short time pay their debts without any discomfort to them" if they disarmed. But the convention leaned toward "readjustment...
...sane and healthy mean, as deflation progresses. There is still a long way to go. But the biggest part of that way will be covered when people,--the ordinary workers and business people of our blind nation stir in their philosophy of economic complacency which the bitterest physical discomfort does not seem to shake, and realize that the prosperity, so-called, of the past decade was a mushroom growing out of a rotten stump. And only when they realize that the stump must be brought level with the earth can the lasting work of reconstruction proceed. --The Dartmouth...
...stop smoothly. But many passengers become uncomfortable as they ride. The air pressure atop the great tower buildings is about one-half pound per square inch less than at the street level. Elevator passengers feel the difference as an annoying pressure on the ear drums. They overcome the discomfort by pretending to swallow. That action opens the eustachian tubes, allows air pressure on the inner sides of the ear drums to equalize air pressure on the outer sides...
...lover (Geoffrey Kerr), hires a ne'er-do-well called Domino (Rod La Rocque) to pretend that it is he who has been her lover. The love of Lorette and the foppish Cremone had been a routine, spiritless affair. Domino makes of it a romantic adventure, much to the discomfort of both ex-lovers, much to the bewilderment of the husband, Heller (Robert Loraine). By the time Husband Heller learns which man has really loved his wife it is too late for the knowledge to do him any good or hapless Cremone any more harm...
...which writes a zigzag line on a moving sheet of paper. An aluminum tripod holds the device so that the exposed end of the plunger rests gently yet firmly near the patient's navel. For there is where she contracts and bulges most. There is no discomfort. Says Dr. Dodek: "The entire apparatus with its tripod support rests on the evenly undulating movements of the abdomen in the intervals between contractions similar to the way in which a moored skiff rests upon the ripples of a calm lake." He finds that women like to watch the jerks...