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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throats and legal beer stands this definition in the first chapter of the Volstead Act. By a majority Congress can at will modify this sentence so as to eliminate the word "beer" and up the alcoholic content to 2.75% or more. If, how and when such modification is to occur continued to make much frothy news last week. Behind all the heady hopes and thirsty speculation lay the following sober facts...
That they were squaring off at the biggest Protestant question of a century doubtless did not occur at once to the little group of Baptist laymen who met with John D. Rockefeller Jr. in Manhattan one night in January 1930. They knew that in Christ's command. "Go ye therefore and teach all nations," lay the largest task of Christianity. Good businessmen, they and Mr. Rockefeller knew that gifts to missions had now fallen off alarmingly. People no longer thought missionizing the best way, as they thought it 30 years ago, to spend their charity-money. Most people...
...state commission to perform the routine of field investigation in various parts of the state, also maintains a clinic in the Children's Hospital in Boston, under the direction of A. T. Legg, assistant professor of Orthopedic Surgery. This clinic diagnoses and supervises cases of the disease which occur in Boston. The research staff is endeavoring to discover a more effective serum than the one now used. Contributions for the fund are being received by Kidder Peabody and Company, of Boston. It is hoped that $20,000 will be raised this year...
Freshmen who do not attend the Yale game will have a chance to gain a visual impression of the plays as they occur form an electric Grid-o-Graph which will be installed in the lower common room of the Union. The apparatus consists of a large screen upon which the course of the ball, the numbers of the players, and the play used in represented by electric lights flashing...
Peptic ulcers occur in the stomach, duodenum and jejunum. Those parts of the anatomy are to the surgeon what a washbowl, water trap and waste pipe are to a master plumber. The surgeon can remove parts of the stomach, duodenum and jejunum. He can remove any one of them entirely if necessary. In extremity he can take all three out and keep the patient alive for a time by fluids through rectum or veins. But the surgeon's ordinary plumbing for peptic ulcer is to cut out the diseased section of stomach, or diseased length of duodenum or jejunum...