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...ornamental mantel vase, urn or basin" suspended close to the ceiling by chains. Immediately above the ice a hole was made in the ceiling. Into this was fitted a pipe which led through the floor above to the chimney. Air contracting around the cold ice created a partial vacuum which sucked outside air from the chimney. This blew over the ice, spilled down around the room, cooled the patient's fever...
...petty favoritism. The number of instructors in a single department is far too large to cull effectively those students who will most agreeably present their cases. And the liberal number of men consulted by the "Crimson," ranging from ten to fifteen, surely ought not to be based or partial on masse...
...handsome. New Hampshire-born of his family's eighth generation in this country, he went early to work for Harris, Forbes & Co., became its president in 1930. Now out of investment banking, he takes up his time with golf, directorships, an occasional reorganization, lays the blame for his partial leisure upon the SEC and "a man named Roosevelt...
...Wars in a "manifesto" followed by a petition pledging support. Besides the retroactive bonus demand, the manifesto threw open the Home Fire Division (burning not shooting) of the V.F.W. to all mothers or future mothers of male children who, they naturally demand, must be sent to France immediately as partial compensation for the inevitable loss of their future husbands...
...appointment. They were educated, trained and licensed to earn their living from fees which their patients paid them. Now a large part of the population can no longer afford to pay any doctor bills whatsoever. To get around that economic difficulty doctors have invented several hundred prepay and partial-pay schemes, including $10-a-year hospitalization insurance (see p. 50). Dr. Parran does not believe such systems will solve the problem of patientless doctors and doctorless patients. He wants socialized medicine, with free drugs and hospital service to every inhabitant of the U. S. who cannot afford them. As filler...