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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Turing to chapter 2, or rather lecture 2, on "Muscles and How They Move," we learn a lot of things which we ought to know; this statement, in fact, being true of the whole book. Are you aware, for example, that muscular activity is effected by chemical reaction; that the efficiency of our muscles is 25 per cent something better that that of a steam engine; that a frog's muscle can lift one thousand times its won weight? Have you a clear conception of what causes the "lubb" and the "dup" of the heart beat? All these question open...
...Bossy" Gillis strewed his vacant lot with tombstones and household crockery labelled: "The Spirit of Newburyport." He called on Mayor Mike Cashman, punched his jaw and spent two months in jail denouncing "the fossils that run this burg...
...years," said Mr. Stonaker, "since I've been on the Princeton to Princeton Junction branch, and college boys have changed a lot since I started. They ain't so kiddish as they used to be now they're grown up like and act like...
...used to come down here to the station after graduation and throw each other through the car windows; it would get down to where only two or three were left, then the others would come out of the cars and throw the last ones in and they got a lot of fun out of it; catch any senior nowdays throwing or being thrown through a window...
...Royal Family. Play has piled upon play about the theatre this season. Burlesque, single great success of the lot, is now challenged by the rough & tumble history of an august theatrical family. It is a story of the Drews and Barrymores say some people (including indignant Barrymores); cries of "no, no", from Authors George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. What of it? The play amuses...