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...President again, but not until March a year later was their curiosity satisfied. His only other appearance in church in Washington was on Easter 1933, when he attended Washington Cathedral. Bishop Freeman and the Cathedral dean gave communion to the President in his pew while Mrs. Roosevelt partook kneeling at the altar rail. On Easter 1934, President Roosevelt held regulation naval services on the Nourmahal on which he was cruising with Vincent Astor...
...certain young tutor, it is reported, was touring England with some confreres. With these colleagues he lunched at Dr. Johnson's tavern. There they partook liberally of stout, and after their imbitions, they proceeded to that ancient church, St. Clement's Dane. Before the high altar they prayed for Abbott Lawrence Lowell and for Harvard. The prayers of the unrighteous avail...
...hand; aboard his ship, few hours after it went aground on the coast of Cyprus at midnight in fair weather. Died. Knud Rasmussen, 54, Danish explorer; of complications following an attack of food poisoning suffered in East Greenland where, making sound films of an Eskimo festival, he partook of the feast; in Copenhagen. Greenland-born, son of a Danish missionary and an Eskimo girl, he knew the difficult, highly inflected Eskimo tongue from birth; spent most of his life studying Greenland and its people; wrote books which ethnologists, philologists and archeologists hailed as invaluable...
...before both bodies were, identical, notably the surveys of vitamins, hormones and enzymes. At Leicester, Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins devoted his B. A. A. S. presidential address to these vital entities. In Chicago they were the subject of a symposium in which A. C. S. President Arthur Becket Lamb partook, and at which foreign guests of the Society expounded-Munich's Dr. Richard Willstätter on enzymes, Zurich's Dr. Paul Karrer on vitamins, Edinburgh's Dr. George Barger on hormones...
...small, but to the men who wish to take occasional exercise in the gymnasium and who care nothing whatsoever about the subsequent swim, the present charge may be prohibitive. The size and private financial condition of this group is easily appreciated as one recalls the number of men who partook in the activities of the gymnasium last year without caring to pay the extra price which entitled them to the use of the pool...