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Forced breathing, which consists of having the swimmer breath particularly deeply for a while before a race, achieves the same effects, Ulen said. Don Barker has been using this method with success. Because the Japanese Olympic swimmers, the Springfield varsity, and several mid-western colleges have all experimented with oxygen, Ulen said that, aside from co-operating with the Fatigue Laboratory for physiological experimentation, his reason for trying the gas was to dispell the false impression that it acted as a stimulant to greater speed...
...secretary to the commission in charge of building the Missouri capitol. He married a Missouri girl named Loyce Enloe, and branched out as an educator in 1914 by joining the administrative staff of Stephens, which young President James Madison ("Daddy") Wood was just beginning to develop into a horsey mid-western finishing school (TIME, June 7). Seven years later Roy Davis' Republican friends made him U. S. Minister to Guatemala, an event he celebrated by adopting spats, cane and black-ribboned pince-nez. High point of Roy Davis' diplomatic career was the revolution that overtook...
...this mid-western city, in 1897, that the Associated Club was first organized by delegates from the several club units in that area. And it is there that this year's representatives will convene to hear such speakers as President James B. Conant '14, and James M. Landis '24, chairman of the Social Securities Exchange Commission and dean elect of the Law School...
...Knox, a bombastic publisher and bitter foe of William Randolph Hearst, has called a truce in the Chicago newspaper war for the duration of the campaign, bearing out the old saying, "politics makes strange bed-fellows". Ranging next in importance behind the standard bearers one finds a line of mid-western politicians:--hardly men of cabinet timber or potential leaders in the government of the United States. Roy Roberts, Lacy Haynes, William Allen White, Hill Blackett, Robert P. Taft: these are the men who, presumably, will be prominent members of the Landon regime should it ever attain office...
George G. Hedblom '37, secretary of the Student Council, made the first speech of the evening. Prefacing his remarks with by a short-story concerning various mid-western school children, he gave a dignified talk concerning the services of the Council. He placed special emphasis on the fact that the Student Council was the only representative body at Harvard, and that students should feel free to bring before it any suggestions or criticisms which they had of the College...