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...minor recovery since the low point of the Depression," said the Annalist last week. "According to certain private advices from Washington, the outlook now is for a continuation of the present moderate recession in business activity until late summer, when the effects of new Government expenditures are expected to inject another dose of stimulant into industrial activity...
Some surgeons inject alcohol into those nerves. The alcohol paralyzes the nerves and makes them as useless as though they were severed. But few surgeons are adept at hitting the quarter of a square inch under the collar bone for which they must aim their hypodermic needles. Dr. Marvin thinks little of the procedure, but said it is the only sensible thing surgery has done for angina pectoris or coronary disease...
...suffer any real deprivation, since, by definition, they are the ones who do not take advantage of tutorial opportunities anyhow. Third, the time which tutors now waste on unresponsive students could be employed productively on their own research and writing. Fourth, the promotion of brilliant younger men would inject new blood into the Faculty, and at the same time would reduce the turnover in tutorial personnel, giving the tutorial staff a semblance of permanence which it has hitherto lacked. Finally, the advancement of the best tutors would encourage all the rest, since it would at last become apparent that tutoring...
...minute a woman becomes pregnant certain hormones appear in her urine. If she wants to make sure of her pregnancy and can afford the expense, she may send a vial of her urine to her obstetrician. He will have a laboratory associate condense the specimen and inject some of it into the belly of a $1.50 virgin rabbit or a 20? virgin mouse. After two or three days the laboratory associate will kill the rabbit or mouse and examine its ovaries. If the ovaries are swollen, that shows that the woman is pregnant. The obstetrician then sends her the report...
...these changes would weaken Harvard's educational machinery, but feel, on the other hand, that the best students would be given more freedom and incentive to do excellent work. From the tutor's standpoint, there would be more time for research and writing, the promotion of younger men would inject new blood into the Faculty, and the advancement of the best tutors would encourage the rest...