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...practicing law in Boston. He wrote his father's biography. His brother was Henry Ingersoll (all Nathaniel's children had Ingersoll for middle name) Bowditch (1808-92), Harvard medical professor, discoverer of the "all-or-nothing" reaction of the heart muscle,* inventor of a way to drain chests in pleurisy. The only Bowditch now living sufficiently famed for Who's Who recognition is Vincent Yardley Bowditch, 76, Boston tuberculosis specialist. He is a nephew of the leg-giving Bowditch. In the family tradition he has written a biography of his father...
Plainly the President wishes to leave a surplus for Mr. Hoover. Observers inferred that he did not consider it "big business" to drain the present treasury for cruisers or prohibition enforcement...
...Beisan, Alan Rowe of the University of Pennsylvania found drain pipes, a grist mill, a circular silo, all indicating a busy city life 3,200 years ago. Pagan temples, tools, utensils, seals and jewelry were signs of Beisan's wealth. It was of such civilization that Jeremiah complained: Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven [Ashtoreth], and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods that...
Gloria Swanson, interviewed for London's weekly Sketch, said: "Skyscrapers drain their inhabitants of colour, and gradually kill them. . . . Half of the women of America are sex-starved. Their husbands cease to be lovers almost as soon as they are married. . . . The sex-starvation of those women is the explanation of a hundred American phenomena which might otherwise puzzle you. It explains their strange crusades, their extraordinary cliques and fetiches. . . . When I grow old, I want to have an old brain as well as an old body...
Although it has undeniably felt this drain, Phillips Brooks House has yet passed a most creditable year. The Social Service Committee and the Deputation Committee have been, as examination of the report shows, particularly active. Changes in the scope of the latter committee's endeavors have subdued the emphasis formerly placed on Harvard delegations to churches, and given more attention to the preparatory school visits. Such a change is sure to react more directly to the benefit of the college itself...