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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most telling blow to the whole House plan. In the majority of cases this exodus could be prevented by a more elastic system of admissions. Arrangements should be made, if necessary by shifting about the present occupants, so that each year a great number of neighboring vacancies would occur. Houses should be thrown open to large groups of friends desiring to live in quarters contiguous to one another. This would by no means be the monoply of Eton and Harrow, but would be equally welcomed by all groups of House applicants, and the motive for withdrawal would in most cases...
Immigrants. In 1908 the U. S. Immigration & Naturalization Service asked Dr. Boas to study the question of physical changes in the descendants of immigrants. Over the ensuing 27 years Dr. Boas piled up a mountain of evidence that such changes do occur. Last week's talk was a summation of those years of research...
...Chicago, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Rochester (Minn.), Boston, St. Louis, Detroit, Atlantic City. He would have to attend conventions of specialists as varied as the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Urological Association, would have to visit state medical association meetings from Alabama to Wyoming. Practically all those meetings occur in the five-week period which began last week...
...Wilson: "The lapse of one minute may be enough, through the absence of oxygen, to damage permanently the cells of the respiratory centre. Once the drug reaches the new born infant's general circulation, the respiratory gasp takes place in less than twelve seconds. Three constant reactions occur within one to four seconds before the respiratory gasp-an increase in muscle tonus, a stiffening of the arms, and a slight opisthotonos [arching of the back]." Commented Dr. George William Kosmak, conscientious editor of the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology: "I have no desire to belittle the effect...
About the most colossal thing in the way of track that the Stadium has witnessed for some time will occur on Saturday, when the Heptagonal Meet gets under way. The trials are scheduled for 10.15 o'clock in the morning, and the finals for 1.30 o'clock...