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...three Schuylers subsist on raw vegetables, raw meat, a diet which Mrs. Schuyler claims is largely responsible for her daughter's precocity. At two Philippa amazed the neighbors by reading, writing her name, spelling 150 long words. At four her spelling is up to pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoniosis.* She is keen at mathematics, reads fourth-grade books, writes poetry, draws and paints, turns out neat letters on her father's type writer...
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS: DOCTOR OF LAWS, of Chicago, President of the University of Chicago since 1929. "A daring educational administrator whose keen weapons from the armory of the past out deep into the academic complacency of the present...
...evidence was largely, if not wholly, circumstantial. It happened that Newfoundland bonds were underwritten by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and, of course, soared in price. It also happened that blocks of such bonds were largely bought just before the rise by British speculators, whose keen sense of values soon enabled them to make a greater killing in Newfoundlands in 1933 than in this year's rather pip-squeak Budget leak...
Unless it is Florida, no State is so health-conscious as California. Besides suntanning themselves and developing their figures, Californians have keen interest in public medicine. This is partly cause, partly effect of the great migrations of U. S. invalids and oldsters who for a generation have poured into California to improve or end their days. And it is responsible for a dilemma in California's medical profession. At last week's convention of the California Medical Association in Coronado (across the bay from San Diego) there were the usual addresses on matters scientific, but the real muttons...
...just the thing. To an uncritical eye The Doctor is a hearty moral tale that shades almost imperceptibly away from real life. Mary Roberts Rinehart has more than a nodding acquaintance with most of the people she writes about, and by the standards of her school her sympathies are keen. To those who mistake the itch and ache of sentimentality for the cathartic stir of tragedy, The Doctor may prove a pleasantly laxative experience...