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...DEEP-VOICED as Dr. Hartman and as hale and hearty is Dr. George B. Winter of Washington University school of dentistry, St. Louis. Like his confrere, Dr. Winter has been a relentless scholar. The object of his study for eighteen years has been the impacted third molar. No cruel chiseling of the tooth is Dr. Winter's method. From X-rays he builds a painstaking campaign of removal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Third-molar Student | 3/7/1936 | See Source »

...stuff than its tipsy neighbor on Oxford Street, Memorial Hall early yesterday morning remained unshaken in the face of concerted bombing by several Freshmen. Several months of plotting, a dozen copies of the New Yorker, and quantities of glue, canvas, and guncotton went into the production of a bomb eighteen inches long and five inches in diameter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strictly Speaking | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...hurling really drastic Sanctions against Italy. In his first formal speech to the House of Commons since he became Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden this week left this point unsettled but he gave most of his time to an ingratiating sales talk for the League of Nations. Exclaiming sorrowfully that "eighteen years after the war to end war, we find ourselves confronted with the same problems dreadfully similar in character and portent to those before 1914," he went on to point the Conservative moral that "whichever course events may take, one element which appears essential for every course is that Great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pigs in Policy | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...back in the Tower before a warm fire the Vagabond pores over the travels of that wily Spanish knight, Pero Tafur, who saw the corruption and all the false show of Byzantium eighteen years before it was taken. It was not the glittering, splendid luxury which dazzled the minds of the West...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/27/1936 | See Source »

...Cohan is Calvin Miller, a rosy, chubby, bald-headed business man, retired in affluence. He loses his middleaged widow love by being too jolly a drunk and revealing the way he befriended an infant in the south of France, a female infant eighteen years of ago. This infant rapidly strides to the fore, and throws herself repeatedly about Calvin's wrinkled neck, in the most gratuitous mannor conceivable. She is alone for a while, but, seen it develops that she has a most insolent pup of a jilted flance; a hatchet-faced companion; a stern, outraged mother whose dignity...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/19/1936 | See Source »

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