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...have tended to cover more and more of each other's material. This seems unnecessary. The detailed analysis of Chaucer's works, with its inevitably pedantic point of view, is at present as uninteresting to the lecturer as to the handful of students present, from whom he can rarely extract the slightest evidence of vigor. If the course is ever to be satisfactory to any concerned, the distinction between English 1 and Comp. Lit. 42 must be clearly defined, with the former much reduced in size, and by some means exclusive of all those who are merely fulfilling a requirement...
...diet of albumins and thyroid extract; no proteins, salt, sugar, cereals, cream, potatoes or meat. His doctor: Ignactius Millian, one-time cancer doctor at Manhattan's Central & Neurological Hospital on Welfare Island...
...Pond's Extract Co. Mrs. Roosevelt broadcast her next-to-next-to-last commercial program. In a soft voice that can make trivial things sound important she discussed Washington society and all the "charming and interesting" people to be met there...
...promptly hung up in his private office a picture of Rev. Michael Earls who had taught him English at Holy Cross College. Last week the O'Brien English continued to make front-page news as veteran reporters, accustomed to the neat nothings of James John Walker, attempted to extract sense from the new Mayor's utterances...
...clumsy as a seal's flippers are the penalty which several thousand Dutch, Jugoslavian and German girls are paying for not wanting or daring to have babies. Theirs is precisely the punishment that was inflicted upon several thousand U. S. citizens who, craving drink, drank Jamaica ginger extract (TIME, March 24, 1930 et seq.). The European girls took apiol, an oily fluid obtained from parsley flowers, as an abortifacient. Both the European apiol and the U. S. ginger extract had been adulterated by viciously shrewd manufacturers with a tricresyl phosphate, newly discovered organic chemical which destroys nerves...