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Obstetrician. The notion that expectant mothers should quit work and take to their beds was attacked by Dr. Nicholson J. Eastman of Johns Hopkins. Deploring the common industrial practice of discharging pregnant women, he cited wartime findings that light factory work does them no harm, that they can safely work...
¶ An electronic device, called the precipitron, which removes all dust and smoke from the kitchen air by drawing it into a duct, where dirt particles are given a positive electric charge and deposited on a negatively charged plate. In smoky Pittsburgh tests the device extended the curtain laundering interval...
Take It Or Leave It (20th Century-Fox) is easy to take as light summer's entertainment. Seaman Eddie Collins (Edward Ryan) returns to Brooklyn and his lovely and expectant wife Kate (Marjorie Massow). For her confinement she wants the services of eminent Dr. Preston, whose fee is $1...
In the 14 Points (in whose formulation Lippmann himself collaborated) Wilson called for reduction of national armaments "to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety."Says Lippmann: "In the interval between the two wars British, French and American military policy followed this disastrous prescription."
Scientific Gobbledygool. The meeting also heard 132 other papers on psychiatry, many of them about the effects of battle on the nervous system, most of them in a kind of scientific gobbledygook ("mal-orientation," "preneurotic interval") very baffling to laymen. Some highlights :