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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most thoughtful present I ever got" said one Harvard grad "was some sonnets a Wellesley girl wrote me and illuminated on parchment." This statement is another version of the old line that the thought behind the gift is most important; that this form of reasoning still prevails is evidenced by local sales of soup tourines, rare prints, and several copies of the US camera annual...
...wrestling dates back to earliest civilization. It is the one sport which never disappeared entirely from the earth and, along with running and jumping, it was the most natural form of exercise because it involved on equipment and provided an invigorating means of building muscles and developing health...
...Ulen, swimming coach, hopes to form a full team of alumni by filling it out with loans from the varsity...
After the evolution of ordinary street hockey, the inevitable introduction of plain speed racing, and a dubious form of amusement in which the participants dance while on roller skates, there didn't seem to be much left for people to do on wheels. All this failed to daunt one Lee A. Seltzer, an athletic-minded Chicagoan who figured that the millions of Americans who roller skate and the millions of Americans who wrestle ought to be thrown together in one merry mob. The Roller Derby originated in Chicago...
Methylcellulose, Dr. Bargen found, is a bulking substance which can be taken handily in tablet form. In lukewarm water or in the digestive tract it forms a suspension of "innumerable tiny translucent gelatinous particles 0.5 mm. or less in diameter." It goes through most of the digestive tract unchanged, but loses water and turns to a bulky jelly about the time it reaches the colon. Dr. Bargen checked on its progress at regular intervals-through abdominal openings in patients who had had intestinal operations...