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...defeated E. A. Cornwell 1L., and S. H. Cavanagh 1L., 6-3, 6-2; S. G. Churchill '26 and Harbart defeated W. K. Cochran 2G.B., and H. C. Hunsaker 1L., 6-2, 7-5; L. F. Holmes '24 and C. C. Carpenter '24 defeated N. Y. Chang 2G.B., and Kan Lee 2G., 1-6, 9-7, 6-4; F. J. Carpenter '24 and Carrol Harrinton '24 won by default from T. McK. Kimball '24 and R. P. Bullard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UPSETS IN FIFTH ROUND | 10/6/1923 | See Source »

...defeated G. D. Reilly '27, 6-0, 6-0; L. O. Pratt '26 defeated A. S. Pinkham '25, 6-3, 6-4; G. Parker Jr. '27 defeated W. B. Peacock '25, 6-0, 6-0; Ira Morris '25 defeated A. T. Meriam 25, 2-6, 6-0, 6-1; Kan Lee 2G defeated C. T. Lane '26, 6-1, 6-3; J. D. Landauer 1L. won by default from L. B. Kentor 1G.; L. H. Bondi '25 defeated H. S. Kempner '24, 6-3, 0-6, 6-0; T. E. Jansen Jr. '26 won by default from D. M. Keiser...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEEDED PLAYERS ADVANCE EASILY IN FIRST ROUND | 10/3/1923 | See Source »

Osteopathy (from Gk., "bone dis- ease"). Founded by Dr. Andrew T. Still, an old-school physician of Baldwin, Kan., in 1874. The first college was opened at Kirksville, Mo., in 1892, and is still the headquarters of the movement. Seven other schools have been started. All the regular medical subjects are taught, though from a different point of view, except materia medico,, for which osteopathic theory and practice is substituted. The course is three years in length. The osteopathic method uses no drugs and is based on the theory that any disease can be controlled by nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Schools and Pathies | 7/16/1923 | See Source »

...Andrew Kan, Chinese merchant of Seattle, recently returned from the great oriental Republic, says the world has gone " Mah Jongg mad." Mr. Kan should know. He went to China to place orders for a half a million sets, but was only able to obtain a fraction of that number, owing to the enormous demand. The price of the game has been increased 100% during the past few months, and Mr. Kan thinks that the price will continue on its upward flight until the American public stops buying, " then the supply will equalize the demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Mah Jongg | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

...Kan points out that " China is often called a nation of sleepy people, or one that has been asleep for hundreds of years, but here is one case in which they are not asleep. Instead, they are awake to the profits that may be made from Mah Jongg, and for the time being they are reaping a good harvest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Mah Jongg | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

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