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...Iowa, etc., who take up residence periodically in Washington. The Territory particularly resents it when full-blooded Americans start talking about "those American possessions, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Hawaii." The loyal American Islanders have an extreme aversion toward being "possessed," even when the United States is the "possessor," for the same reason that the multi-racial jury in the Fortescue-Massie case was royally irked when Clarence Darrow talked to it "as if we were a group of Middle Western farmers...
Mayo Clinic's Dr. E. C. Kendall was interested in another gland, the adrenal. When a derangement cuts off its flow of hormone, its possessor turns yellow, grows weak, wastes away. Called Addison's disease, this rare ailment was ordinarily fatal until physicians learned to supply the needed hormone from animal sources. But obtainable hormone is scarcer than the disease, and many a victim has died for lack of it. Last week Dr. Kendall reported that Mayo Clinic has isolated the hormone in pure crystalline form, analyzed its chemical composition. With this knowledge chemists may be able...
Careful investigation has satisfied TIME 1) that Bettor Hill is an earnest as well as a facetious purist; 2) that he, possessor of a vast football library, was sincere in his devious criticism of TIME's use of "All-America" and "All-American"; 3) that though correct in the instance he cited (calling Bill Corbus "Stanford's All-American guard"-TIME, Nov. 20), TIME has in other instances erred in the use of "All-American"; 4) that at least one TIME-reader (C. H. McWilliams of Wilmington, Ohio) perceived Purist Hill's concealed point. For purity...
First-you say that "Publisher Carter reputedly financed the Garner-Farley junket over American Airways, of which he is a heavy stockholder." Permit me to say that I own no stock in the American Airways, though at one time I was the possessor of 500 shares, which I disposed of many months...
...bushmaster hates captivity. Surrounded by tropical foliage and plenty of food, it goes on a sullen hunger strike. Attempts at forced feeding numb it with rage, paralyze its digestion. It starves to death in four or five months. Snakeman March, now possessor of the only known bushmaster in captivity, may have better luck since he will keep his catch in its native habitat...