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Under the new tariff a hefty Packard will pay $1,230 (a comparatively trifling increase) but a Buick of nearly the same heft will pay $1,189 (an increase of 75%: a crushing discrimination against Buick or "medium priced" cars...
...certain sterling human qualities-strength, vigor, integrity, the beauty of a well-knit body and the fundamental character essential to a good craftsman. . . . His bronzes . . . should appeal to a large audience in Detroit, a city where men of millions know the feel of an engine throttle and the heft of a tool." They saw a barrel-chested iron-forger, naked above his leather apron, poising his sledge for a blow. They saw a strong-armed Nordic guiding an electric drill, and a cool Nordic in overalls _ and gauntlets, riding midair on a girder -perhaps a bone in the steel skeleton...
...more than a handful of excessively well-posted people can afford to miss this book. Since it contains not a word of "war scare" claptrap, there is room upon its vivid pages for enough striking fact and comment to burst the covers off an average volume of like heft. Yet Mr. Bakeless' thesis is expressible in a few lines, which he modestly quotes from General Tasker H. Bliss...
...results attendant upon eating ordinary fats, allowing them to gain in weight and strength. It supplements and sometimes hastens the curative action of insulin. It is harmless even if taken continuously in quantity.-Dr. Max Kalin (the inventor), Dr. William J. Gies, Columbia University; Dr. Hattic L. Heft...
Rugged Rutgers rolled up only six touchdowns against New York University. The lighter team's spirit was commendable. Even with hulking Homer Hazel's All-American punts and heft driving them back, the New Yorkers threatened a touchdown, scored a field goal. Score: Rutgers...