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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slack year for national heroes was 1929. The public prints lacked new and spectacular performers to make the public hero-conscious. But the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, only U. S. hero-rewarding organization except the Government, found no dearth of candidates. Last week it recognized 51 acts of heroism, more than twice last year's number...
...weak husband spoil life for her. She is a stenographer. Her husband is the son of a millionaire. When her father-in-law has broken up her marriage she is kept by another man. Later she engages in a contest of self-sacrifice with her former husband's new wife. The plot is full of "audience value," i. e., emotional sequences rising out of each other so rapidly as to eliminate the narration necessary in ordinary stories. Through its unrealities, Gloria Swanson is handsome, restrained, adroit, in good voice. Best shot:?Swanson saying goodbye to her little...
...back as the 1880's scientists were studying the effects and values of foods. Their predecessors had believed that pure carbohydrates, proteins and fats alone were sufficient nutrition to supply an animal with its essential energy, to provide it with material for new growth, to replace its waste tissue. Researchers, including Dr. Hopkins, discovered that animals fed on "pure" diets lost weight and died. He found (1906) that a little milk in the diet kept the animals from dying and concluded that the milk must contain some unknown ingredient (vitamin...
...fruit into a pap which they let the quail eat from their mouths. The pecking quail abrade the gaveurs' lips, noses, chins. The peckmarks become infected, ulcerated; the gaveurs are miserable, sometimes die. ... So reported the Journal of the American Medical Association, ever on the alert for new occupational diseases...
These countries and in addition Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and the Philippines were represented by delegations including historians, diplomats, bankers, educators, economists. Present were "observers" for France, Mexico, Soviet Russia. Though purely unofficial the Institute of Pacific Relations is Asia's nearest likeness to Europe's League of Nations...