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...must finish in ablaze of positive assertions for the Student Activities Center proposal. Beyond the undisputed need for such an institution and the student demand resulting from that need the Committee must be made to realize that all of the objections it has raised to the Center are invalid...
...history books, Dr. Dunbar hints, are full of examples of psychosomatic illness. British Prime Minister William Gladstone developed a "diplomatic cold" whenever he faced a difficult or distasteful debate. Elizabeth Barrett, browbeaten daughter of a tyrannical father, was a bedridden invalid for 20 years-and was cured almost overnight when, at the age of 40, she met and married Robert Browning. In the Ode to a Nightingale, observes Dr. Dunbar, John Keats wrote a perfect, succinct description of a psychosomatic patient: "I have been half in love with easeful Death...
...scientists conveyed their interest, as did numerous industrialists, colleges and universities, foreign scientists, etc. Some wanted to know how to manufacture the ultrasonic siren; others asked whether it could be devoted to such uses as sterilizing insect eggs in flour, the homogenization of chocolate for hand-dipped candies. An invalid wondered whether the instrument would pulverize his kidney stones without damaging him. The Long Island Duck Farmers Association thought it would be ideal for defeathering ducks. Some others who have been heard from to date...
...Paris printer of one of our overseas editions for a plane-sped package of extender (ink dryer). He has even been useful in getting people to work. Recently, one of our researchers injured a kneecap and another, who had just recovered from a broken leg, offered to lend the invalid her idle crutches to come to the office on. Scorning a taxicab, Dailey strapped the crutches on either side of his motorcycle and admired the way people gaped at him in the streets. He would like to know, however, whether they thought he was already incapacitated or just using commendable...
Little, red-haired Emily retired in 1934. On Denver's standard $50-a-month teacher's pension-all that Emily would accept -she settled down in a pine-slab mountain cabin at Pinecliffe, 35 miles northwest of town, with her invalid sister, Florence...