Word: normale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important to internal medicine as insulin, declared doctors at Northwestern University medical school last week, is the intestinal secretion just discovered by Professor Andrew Conway Ivy and his physiology research associates there. Ingested fats and meats, plus the gastric juices, make the intestines secrete a something which causes a normal gall bladder to contract and thus empty its contents into the intestinal tract where they are needed to help the body properly assimilate its food. If the gall bladder-a bulbous sack 3 in. long by 1 in. to 1¼ in. in diameter connected with the liver, spleen & pancreas...
...past few months, the Student Vagabond--as his readers may perhaps have noticed--has been, as it were in seclusion, sending out, if you will, merely daily bulletins as to his intellectual health: pulse--normal; respiration--noticeable. But he himself has rarely appeared in public due--to the wintry weather, the recent Junior revel--what you will. Today, in fact he has come forth to sniff the air, like a belated ground hog some will say; not indeed to say anything of much pertinence. But the mythical approach of spring with its flowers and tree and other shapsodic subjects...
...When companionate marriage is really understood," commented Judge Lindsey in his recent speech in New York, "it will mean an enormous in crease in the health and happiness of our undergraduates by increasing marriage at colleges and affording our students a normal adjustment at an early age at just that point where so many youthful lives are totally wreched...
...That's stage stuff in so far as the union officials are concerned. . . . These folks you saw were dubs. ... I mean by that that they enjoy misery?or what would be misery to you or me, but to them is just normal existence. Why, some of them have been living like that around here for three years, and they'll continue to do it as long as the public helps them and the union exploits them...
...Second Act. Nina, not now so normal, has tried to dodge her grief with martyrdom. Believing she must help war cripples to happiness she lives with them. Dr. Ned Darrell, unconsciously in love with her, arranges to have her marry Sam Evans, genial weakling, to afford her anchorage. Not loving Sam she consents, thinking (still the martyr) she can beautify his life and ease her own sorrow with babies...