Word: pads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slightest desire to entangle myself in the, ties of matrimony, the terrors of housekeeping will not bother me. I shall order a few rubberneck lamps, a six-by-three Harvard pennant, a Harvard shield, several more or less ornate rugs, a framed copy of Kipling's 'If," a desk pad, and other absolutely requisite articles of decoration obtainable at the "Coop," all surrounded with the enticing lure of a tenpercent rebate, and my difficulties will be solved. Such are the advantages of living in this modern...
...editorials in the adjoining column invite comparison. No serious minded Harvard undergraduate can read them without asking his introspective self, "Am I an athlete--or an aesthete?" When he has decided whether the shelf-mark or the shoulder-pad is his birthright, he will undoubtedly realize that for a long time he has been very unfair to his antagonists, the shoulder-pads or the shelf-marks--whichever it is that...
...background. These wires are threaded across the magnetic field formed between the polar ends of an electromagnet. In each pole of the magnet is screwed a microscope, one lending light, the other enlargement. Rubber manacles are placed over the wrists of the patient. Under each manacle is a salt pad (electric conductor) from which a wire runs, bearing the current of the body to the quartz threads where they are stretched, shining in shadow, watched by the microscope and the lens of a special camera. The pulse moves in and out, currents move over the body and shake the threads...
...Rogers. After dinner, the party went to the Jolson Theatre?minus Mrs. Vanderbilt, who rushed off, apologizing. Later, the Duchess beamed at a school of wriggling debutantes at the Colony Club. The Colonial Dames of America gave a party for her in a Park Avenue Hotel. The engagement pad of her visit recorded leading hostess in New York, Philadelphia, Washington...
...whooping cough, pass the child nine times over and under a donkey from left to right." That is a prescription of the 17th Century. For the same complaint, 100 years ago, a doctor would have shaken his head, stroked his beaver, written Pil. Quin. Sulph. on a brown pad, and the mother would have thought she had a cureall. Today medicos do not always find it necessary to fortress their ignorance with esoteric metaphors; many can talk, some can even write, of their calling refreshingly, candidly, in simple words. An example is Dr. S. M. Rinehart, who has written...