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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a U. S. ship, the Erica Reed, with the Stars & Stripes painted on her sides, sailed from New York for Leftist Spain, her hull bulging with 11,000,000 lb. of foodstuffs contributed by Leftist sympathizers. Perhaps the most precious part of her cargo was a 26-pound package of nicotinic acid (270,000 doses), the recently developed cure for pellagra. This gift, addressed to Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin, himself a well-known physiologist, was sent by 39 U. S. scientists, including three Nobel Prizewinners...
...shadow of the Third Avenue elevated on Manhattan's Bowery. Then they marched into a basement auditorium to see big-eared Dr. Edwin Sharp Burdell, former dean of humanities at M. I. T., installed as director of Cooper Union. Among platform spectators was Dr. Burdell's 14-pound striped cat, "Farmer...
...Thin persons may relieve constipation by eating more cream (three to four oz.) and butter (at least one-eighth of a pound). Bran is "a material unsuited for human consumption and should be relegated to the barn. . . ." Often it proves harmful, sometimes obstructs the large and small intestines. A couple of cups of coffee a day are helpful, for coffee contains a drug, caffeol, which has laxative properties. Some persons react to a few glasses of water in the morning when their bowels are on "trigger edge...
...spite of a hard thumping in the last two games, wingman Pate Wentworth at left end can be relied upon to stop anything in the way of end sweeps that come his way. Likewise Jim Digel at the other end is strong defensively. At the tackies are stocky, 175-pound Dee Thompson and Bill Hurit...
Brightest spot in the Cavalier season, which also includes a 33-0 drubbing by Navy, was their 34-0 win over William and Mary. Their star is triple threat Jim Gillete, 182 pound halfback. Jim is very much o.K. with his toe, as his ten punts averaging 51 yards in the Columbia game evinces...