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...that way, too, within 24 hours. Keeping the nose dry, he believes, makes a patient less susceptible to secondary infection. His method has been used in Elmira Reformatory's hospital for four years-about 1,300 colds so far-and Dr. Adler says the patients' noses are drier, their temperatures lower, than on standard treatment...
After this comes the whirling extractor, which presses water from the washed towels. The final phase of the cycle is the drier, powered by a 10 horsepower electric motor, which revolves and tumbles 100 towels at a time until they are soft...
...this one seemed already aerated--never seen a 'poon with drier ink. An' y' know, I mussa been drunk--becos every goddam thing in the paper seemed to me to have been written by some guy whats already left. Never seen a 'poon with so much correspondence...
Fire With Fire. At Newnan, 160 miles north, the skies were kinder to Talmadge's opponent, who put on a drier, better act. Young (35) Attorney General Ellis G. Arnall, boy wonder of Georgia politics, was out to beat Talmadge at his own medicine-show game. He served up 100 pit-barbecued pigs, 1,200 gallons of Brunswick stew, a two-hour vaudeville show featuring the Coweta Cracker Crunchers...
...pressure on U.S. prices-especially consumer prices-is getting stronger every week. Plugged by the patriotic thumbs of 1,700,000 retailers, the dyke has kept consumers much drier than they may feel. Last week many a retailer prepared to rest his thumb, turn over...