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Fran Meyer, Sophomore from the environs of Cleveland, who was ineligible for Freshman play two years ago, and who was a dropped Freshman this winter, has also reported, and if the scholastic barriers are surmounted, will prove a valuable addition to the squad. He is faster and can pivot quicker than practically anyone on the floor at present, and has a good basket eye. His loss to the 1937 Freshman team was a severe one, but if he is available next winter, it will delight the Fesler heart...
Other yarns: Oscar Cowlie found that he could milk his cows quicker if he took his. radio to the barn, tuned in on fast tempo music; Charles Nestor noticed the backs of his sheep were getting bare, investigation showed that swallows had picked wool therefrom to line their nests; Elmer Sweetdcw tapped his sugar bush, found a pail with whiskey in it next morning, reached into a knothole in the tree and pulled out a whiskey bottle placed there by a hired man years ago. He had drilled directly into the cork in tapping the tree. . . . HOWARD E. HAGGSTROM...
...Century, almost all painting was either in fresco (pure pigment mixed with water and applied to wet plaster) or in tempera (ground pigments mixed with beaten egg and water and applied either to wood or canvas that is prepared with a plaster-like ground). Oil painting is easier and quicker, but fresco and tempera do not fade. In Manhattan last week, one of the very few art courses in the U. S. in the technique of egg-tempera painting was under way in the Cooper Union Art School under the direction of David Turnbull, an abstract painter and onetime American...
Last week three University of Chicago doctors announced that they had discovered a cheaper and quicker method of certifying pregnancy. Drs. Aaron Elias Kanter, Carl Philip Bauer and Arthur Herman Klawans use a little carp-like fish which costs only 30?. Within 24 hours after a female bitterling is placed in a quart of fresh water, which also contains two teaspoonfuls of urine from a pregnant woman, there grows out from the belly of the bitterling a long tubular appendage, called an oviduct, through which in the ordinary course of nature she would expel her own eggs. As soon...
...tutor their children they employ a person called Prince de Vigni, "last surviving member of the royal family of Silesia." Tutor de Vigni teaches the children four hours daily, reports them brighter and quicker than other children. Summer and winter they wear only bathing suits...