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...leave it to you to judge the manner in which this understanding was respected. I can further state that the character of the article in question is as far from the spirit of our conversation as the "quotations" attributed to me are incorrect and misleading...
...observes, in the gait of the women, "a kind of serenely confident ostentation"; he notes too that they are bold with their eyes in the streets, and the men shy, almost to a reversal of sex. To him the well-known myth about the dominant American female is incorrect; "it seems to me rather the cult of woman, a little in the spirit of the troubadours. ..." When Remains explains to him that American men, though you may talk with them freely about the French or Chinese or Tahitian, have "a curious-and in a way admirable and touching-sense...
...listen so well at home. They inspected munitions plants, factories and shipyards, everywhere cheered by British workmen, everywhere given the fullest cooperation. Winding up his tour last week Comrade Shvernik said the British workers were fine but the British system not so good. He charged that there was "an incorrect attitude in some factories regarding the initiative of working men and women on their rationalizing proposals; unwillingness to listen to the voice of working men and women and their shop stewards; and even, in individual factories, a limiting of the level of output...
Standard gangrene preventive for legs and feet with blocked circulation is plenty of heat. This, says Dr. Silbert, is in many cases "absolutely incorrect." Reason: heat increases metabolism of the tissues, raises their need for fresh blood. To prevent gangrene, tissue metabolism in the legs should be slowed down, the blood vessels given less work to do. Hence he puts ice bags around legs and feet until pain disappears and the limb is able to get enough circulation from substitute blood vessels...
...former years at Harvard about 300 students annually took the corrective exercises, but only about 200 were required to take them because of incorrect posture. The remainder were either freshmen volunteers or upperclassmen who wanted to continue the exercises they had taken in freshman year. Each year, according to Fradd, about 75% rise to an "A" or "B" rating and about 15% rise to a "C"; the rest remain stationary...