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...obviated the unsightly overhung bodies of past years. Very few open cars are now made. The closed bodies are slung very low. Triplex and Duplex safety glass appear in almost every expensive car and in the windshields of cheaper makes. Chromium, non-tarnishing metal, is used almost universally in lamp rims, hub caps, door handles, bumpers and other trimmings. Body colors are subdued, more blacks appearing than for several years...
...Only a little part of Cambridge now remains unspoilt. I recall looking out of my window at Winthrop Hall one midwinter morning to find the ground under a foot or two of snow, the trees grey with frost, no pathway or roadway swept, and one small gas street-lamp the only reminder of town life. It was a momentary vision of the vanished village of Cambridge: a moment affording a rare memory these days. To escape to the country now one must travel for thirty minutes in train or motor...
...stimulate the vitality of the tissues a brief, general exposure to ultraviolet rays from a mercury lamp has been made each day since Dec. 15. There is reason to think that this employment of ultraviolet rays has, in combination with the treatment mentioned in previous statements, been beneficial...
...last week, was almost solely designed to vanquish this fear. Cried he, at the apogee of his oration: "Six years of loyalty and devotion to the King and Crown by all men of the Fascist Party and the recent dedication by the King himself at Bologna of a votive lamp in memory of those Blackshirts who fell in the creation and defense of the Fascist regime, make it unnecessary to give further demonstration that the rights of the Crown will not be endangered or touched by the special prerogatives given to the Grand Council, which legally thereby becomes the adviser...
...greatest of them all. No composer of the first rank has failed to surpass him in this way or that, but he stands above all of them as a contriver of sheer beauty, as a maker of music in the purest sense. There is no more smell of the lamp in his work than there is in the lyrics of Shakespeare. It is infinitely artless and spontaneous. But in its artlessness there is no sign of that intellectual poverty which so often shows itself, for example, in Haydn. Few composers, not even Beethoven and Bach, have been so seldom banal...