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...assumes the sex which, glandularly speaking, he actually had from the beginning. It sometimes happens, however, that a normal girl suddenly begins to acquire virile features. Medical men are convinced that this is due to tumorous growths which take root on the normal sex glands, rouse to activity the dormant, vestigial male cells. When the growths are extirpated, the girl usually reverts to femininity...
...part-time Postmaster General to full-time chairman of the Democratic National Committee (TIME, July 20). Three days before making this ectoplasmic shift for the duration of the campaign, he announced the appointment of Franklin D. Roosevelt's great & good friend Frank Comerford Walker, onetime head of the dormant National Emergency Council and Democratic National Treasurer in 1932, as active chairman of the Democratic National Finance Committee...
This delay has often caused loss of interest in scholastic work, due, in large measure, to a new absorption in the relatively more entertaining field of extra-curricular activities. In itself this cannot be deplored except in that the former scholastic drive often remains dormant even after the first-year rules have been lifted and the signal is set to go ahead. Extra-curricular interests such as publications, instrumental clubs, debating, the Glee Club and the like can become extremely absorbing and books and scholastic requirements are easily pushed to one side till some later date; a date which grows...
...possible political repercussions, rather than the unethical and probably illegal aspects of the measure, which attract attention. Somewhat dormant recently, popular feeling and fears about recovery would be sufficiently whipped into a froth to reenforce Republican sentiment. The two proponents are, indeed, Republicans, but of the insurgent variety and they draw most of their support from the Democratic ranks. The real suggestibility of the measure, if it develops momentum, lies in what position Senator Borah might be forced to take, with his long record of favoring farmers and inflationists...
...beyond the tree line, its motors suddenly coughed. Back at once circled the pilot in search of a landing place. Before he could find one, his plane was caught in a strong air current, slithered downward, crashed in a fountain of flame on the rocky saddle between the two dormant volcanoes. When rescuers climbed up over the mountain flank, most of the 14 bodies were incinerated beyond recognition...