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...appeared evident at the outset that adrenal cortical insufficiency was not a prerequisite for improvement, since it occurred with equal rapidity in patients with 'quiescent' adrenals as well as in those with normal or increased functions...
...There are always two kinds of paintings," Matisse went on. "First there is the kind that introduces something new. Such paintings begin by being worthless but eventually they ascend the heights of value. Then there are those which are accepted at the outset because they offer nothing new but simply flatter the public taste. They are later found to be worthless...
...more money and more thought than its rivals into developing the new process, the Trib had gotten the best results. In news coverage and news play, also, it was still Chicago's liveliest sheet. Nevertheless, its circulation had slumped-from 1,010,000 at the strike's outset to around 950,000 last week. Nobody knew just why. Best guess: now that there is little change in editions, many readers who had once bought an evening and a morning Trib are buying only one copy...
...outset of the campaign a limited number of parents were invited to make contributions," Hunneman wrote, "with the result that 108 parents have thus far subscribed $10,500 to the total now in hand. We are now asking every parent to consider carefully the claims of Radcliffe on their generosity . . . We hope that every parent will find it possible to make a contribution, however small...
...American Club, ECAdministrator Paul G. Hoffman, nine days out of Washington on a quick round-the-world trip, met some 35 foreign and Chinese correspondents last week. Trim and smiling in his double-breasted blue suit, Hoffman tried to be as responsive as possible. Sensibly, at the outset, he cautioned that he had no authority or qualifications to "determine or define" U.S. policy toward China. But, whatever his good intentions, the cautious, sensible-sounding words he then uttered were a kick in the teeth to the tottering Nationalist government and a boost, in effect, to the Communists...