Word: kernels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Zander the Great. A lovely nurse girl trying to find among Arizona badmen the father of her tiny ward is the kernel of this tale. It is fed forth with all the usual garnishings of hard riding, sheriffs and a sand storm. Early pictures of the nurse girl struggling to escape from an orphanage had little bearing on the general scheme but were nevertheless the most interesting. Marion Davies is starred and gives an extraordinarily good performance at first, that thins down to the close-up of a lovely maiden type of playing...
...kernel is sound. A young man who lives and breathes only for syncopation marries into a dry-goods family with emporiums the country over. For four years he is bound by the chain store shackle. The family still regard him as a cheap actor, a low comedian, a gutter snipe. He makes the obvious burst and, as the final curtain falls, is headed for Broadway and a career of sound public service as a song-and-dance...
...disposed to accept the Treaty of Versailles or to recognize or take part in the political activities of the League of Nations. What it does imply is that from now onward she has an intimate and tangible concern in what, after all, is the kernel of the European problem, namely, the restoration of Germany to political and economic health...
...diet of white rats disclosed that on a certain diet they will thrive but will not produce young or, if they have young, will not have sufficient milk to feed them, will become nervous, irritable, cross with the young and even eat them. Olive, peanut, soy bean and peach kernel-oil were found to restore and promote fertility but failed to produce lactation (that is, milk for the young). The seeds of wheat, corn, hemp produced fertility and lactation. From these facts are inferred the existence of a new vitamin, called Vitamin E or Vitamin X.-Dr. Barnett Sure, University...
...American Branch of the Inter- national Law Association considered the Experts' reparations plan, passed resolutions which were forwarded to Colonel James A. Logan, U. S. unofficial representative at the present reparations conversations in Paris. Kernel of these resolutions was the advocacy of immediate payment of U. S. claims against Germany (as soon as deter- mined by the commission at Washington) by the issuance of U. S. bonds based on long-term German obligations...