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...goitre produces more thyroid hormone than the body requires, observed Dr. Lahey, causes more energy to be dissipated than the body can afford to expend. Immediate source for this energy is sugar in the blood. The blood gets its supply from sugar stored in the liver. When the liver's store runs out, a thyroid crisis is apt to develop. Delirium, vomiting, diarrhea, temperatures of 105 degrees to 106 degrees ensue. Infections such as tonsillitis or abscessed teeth accentuate this condition. Explained Dr. Lahey...
...even true that as Maine goes, so goes Maine. In 1932 it elected a Democratic Governor and two Congressmen in September, went for Hoover in November. But because politicians believe that a September victory has a persuasive effect on voters throughout the land, both Parties regularly expend money and efforts on Maine's State election out of all proportion to its national importance...
...lots. Slapped together as cheaply as possible, these "quota" films are even more of an imposition on British audiences than "summer fare" on U. S. audiences. Gaumont, explained Isidore Ostrer last week, will up its production from 24 pictures per year to "almost double that amount and on those expend far larger sums than were hitherto expended by the three competitive enterprises...
...Lamps of China (Warner). When Hollywood producers last year were forbidden to make pictures as salacious as they wanted, they issued yelps that censorship would make the cinema more childish than it had been. As usual, their alarm was groundless. Forced to expend their inventiveness upon subjects other than sex, U. S. cinema producers in the last year have for the first time taken a sophisticated interest in social problems. In Black Fury, Warner Brothers presented a provocative and, for the cinema, daring portrait of the miseries of coal miners. Oil for the Lamps of China is another picture containing...
...shifting local loyalties." In 180 pages Adams retells, with balanced impartiality, the story of the Civil War, concludes: "The essence of our national tragedy has been that the section of our new country in which the humane view and way of life developed first should . . . have been forced ... to expend its intellectual energies against the trend of the age, to lose its wealth, and to be left in rum and without its proper and essential influence on the rest of the nation, which sorely needed, as it needs today, what the South had to give." Because "no type of property...