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...yard dash-Harold "Boots" Lever, University of Pennsylvania, 6 8/10...
...yard dash-Harold Lever, University of Pennsylvania, 7 5/10...
...warn Mustapha Kemal Pasha who has massed troops on the Syrian-Turkish border, and who, it is feared, will use them as a lever to exert pressure at the Lausanne Conference...
...micro-vivisection" apparatus so delicate that it enables scientists to dissect living cells has been perfected by Professor C. E. Tharaldsen, of the Department of Zoology, Northwestern University. It consists of a brass lever moved by three finely adjusted screws, manipulating special glass needles which can be brought to bear upon a cell suspended in a drop of nutrient fluid under the lens of the microscope. The needles, the essential part of the machine, are finer than hairs and are formed like a "J" or an "L." The apparatus is superior to similar devices now in use, in that...
...Elihu Root calls attention to the widespread misuse of leisure, particularly among those who have recently acquired it. In a world in which the workman no longer has the joy of "perfecting his works" but merely the delight of pulling a lever 897 times an hour, he must save his soul in his leisure time if he is to save it at all. His difficulty at present is that he would rather lose his soul than his spare time. And Mr. Root says he can't have both...