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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such a matter as this one would think a word to the wise sufficient. Let me warn the unsuspecting, however; it is not. I speak from personal experience. He who opens a window is an enemy of society. Not only will the window be closed at once, but the unfortunate person who opened it will have incurred the lasting enmity of his fellows. We cannot hope to open a window in Widener. What we can do is to see that the ventilating system, installed at great cost when the building was erected, but never used for lack of funds...
Anthropology & Medicine. Let doctors consult with anthropologists for light on human physical evolution, for data on human variation and for the furnishing of normal standards, said Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of the Smithsonian institution. "The vast collection of both normal and pathological material in our Osteological, brain, and other collections is used nowhere near as much as it should be by the medical man and the surgeon. . . . [Physical anthropology shows for example] that the normal stature of an adult American male is not 5 feet 7½ inches, but anywhere between...
There are several mooring masts in U. S. where the Los Angeles may tie up for the night. But should a high wind rise she must let go, or tear her nose off. She can, in emergencies, be brought down on large flat stretches. There must be crowds on hand to hold her. She can be temporarily "anchored" at sea by means of a huge canvas bucket dragged in the water on a 200 foot cable. On absolutely still lakes she can be angled down, to rest with her nose in the water. These are all temporary measures. Dirigibles...
...However, let nanny goats feel no humility. They give each year 15 times their weights in milk, whereas cows niggardly produce only six times their weights...
Horrid to many a small boy was a proposal made last week by Director Edward P. Smith, of New York State's summer high schools. Let public schools be open the year round, said he, instead of on the present schedule of forty weeks or less. "Our forty-week year dates from the time when we were an agricultural people, when pupils were needed for harvesting crops. We have exactly the reverse of that condition...