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Later: "I hear from fairly good sources that America is on the verge of Communism. . . . The sailors on the big war ships have their red flags all ready to hoist to the tune of the Internationale. If the NRA fails, there is bound to be Hell popping...
Scurvy was not brought into the laboratory until 1907 when Hoist and Frolich inflicted it on guinea pigs, tested the curative potency of vegetables. In 1932 Professor A. Szent-Gyorgyi found that hexuronic acid from adrenal glands had powerful antiscorbutic properties, and soon thereafter the name was changed to ascorbic acid and identified with Vitamin C. After long search for raw material from which the vitamin could be mined in quantity, Szent-Gyorgyi turned to the paprika beds near his home in Hungary and in one day obtained a half-pound of his acid. In March last year, Professor Walter...
...their relief. The measure was the Farm Bankruptcy Act which President Roosevelt signed just before leaving for his holiday. In the final hours of the last session of Congress, Senator Long, filibustered this non-Administration bill to a vote, and a vote meant passage. The latest device to hoist the U. S. farmer out of his mudhole of debt provided that...
WEDDING SONG-David Burnham-Vi-king ($2.50). If Ernest Hemingway should read this book he would be less flattered than embarrassed. Apparently with no intent of parodying his master's manner, Author Burnham has succeeded all too well. Though doubtless meant to hoist the standard higher, Wedding Song blows the gaff on the whole Spartan-boy-&-fox school of understatement. Kit has never forgiven his father, U. S. Tycoon Abbott, for his mother's death, for not accepting his own War bride until it was too late. His whole life is vowed to revenge. From Venice, where...
...three successive games this season, Oregon State used only one substitute. Most eccentric of all Coach Stiner's notions is his defense against a point after touchdown. His two prodigious tackles, Harry Field (223 Ib.) and Adolphe Schwammel (214 Ib.), each seize one leg of huge Clyde Devine, hoist him into the air to block the kick (see cut). Against Oregon, the play worked well. Against Fordham last week, it worked again. After Red Franklin's amazing 93-yd. runback of the kickoff for a touchdown, Fordham marched steadily to a tying touchdown in the second period. Danowski...