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...been brought up before, but beyond a meagre recommendation by the House Committee chairmen to alter the old system, nothing had been done until the Masters met last Tuesday. The strongest argument against a change allowing more meals in other halls was that certain dissatisfied undergraduates might form the habit of eating regularly in neighboring Houses...
Organized under the will of John Lowell, Jr. in 1836, the foundation limited itself to public lectures in Boston, which, in the habit of the day, were principally devoted to religious matters...
Last year London staved off blitzes and worried. Last week it breathed easily and all too complacently while Russia bore the brunt of Hitler's attack. Last year London worried over Winston Churchill's habit of walking around during raids, listened to Parliament jump from one major war issue to another. Last week London watched Winston Churchill and 75,000 other people whisk off to Wembley for the year's biggest football match (England downed Scotland 2-to-0), winced as the House of Commons wrangled testily over whether or not R.A.F. officers should smoke pipes...
Ordnance's chief, Major General Charles Macon Wesson, has a habit of waving away criticism without answering it. He has also been rightly accused of being over-complacent about a job that is good, but certainly not tops, as the U.S. figures technical performance. Last week "Bull" Wesson was just back from a visit to London to see what Britain was doing in his line of business. (Said he to a pretty girl abed in an air-raid shelter: "Really I ought to kiss a girl like you good night-but I'm a family...
...Morphine is habit-forming partly because it makes the body's smooth muscles (such as those in intestinal walls) consume more oxygen. According to F. E. Shideman and Maurice Harrison Seevers of the University of Wisconsin, this oxygen consumption continues for several days after morphine has been stopped and may bring on the agonizing cramps of which deprived addicts complain...