Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Octogenarian John C. Coolidge, father of the President, received a let- ter from Mrs. J. D. Knapp, of Joliet, Ill., asking prices on his maple-sugar. He replied...
...Risler and Mondain had contrived a "ray filter" of plastic material, penetrable only by the infra-red and yellow rays. The long-waved rays thus filtered out were then applied to living tissues that had been exposed to the destructive influence of a complete Xray. The tissue showed no ill effects. Cases of radiodermitis, next treated, were declared "completely cured" after three or four applications...
...genuine parody is a difficult business, as everyone knows who has ever bothered to make a few comparisons. No attempt is so beset with inveiglements to flat failure. The way is full of pitfalls, and flanked with ambushes--of ill temper, overstatement, and undue ambition to substitute mere "smartness" for humor. It is like baking a custard: too much heat in the oven fillips it to whey in a twinkling, and untutored carelessness withers all its delicious possibilities to stringy, unpalatable ruin. But blessed are they among a generation anhungered who know the true recipe and have acquired the knack...
...longer free agents. The most independent newspaper of which I know is the Harvard CRIMSON," declared Professor A. N. Holcombe '06 in his speech at the Liberal Club yesterday on "The Morals of Journalism". Bruce Bliven, who had been scheduled to speak on that subject was taken ill yesterday morning...
John Huston Finely Jr. '25 of New York City and Franklin Weeks jones '25 of Evanston. Ill., have been awarded the Charles Eliot Norton Fellowships. These fellowships, established in 1901 by James Loeb '88 in memory of Charles Eliot Norton '46, are awarded by a committee of the Classical Department on the basis of general scholarship, and are to allow the holder to study for a year at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens...