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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Infantile paralysis is a nerve disease. The virus destroys nerves. Hence muscles become useless. But in only a small proportion of cases does the disease progress to paralysis, and comparatively few of the paralyzed remain that way long...
...comparatively few who remain permanently paralyzed he recommended orthopedic surgery. A skilled surgeon can often correct sound muscles in such fashion that a wobbly joint becomes stiff and the limb useful. Often he can get some controlled motion back into a limb. Many a rehabilitated person moves his jaw with a muscle from his neck...
...could not remain this way long. Now at the end of the present season come the stories. New York University has been indulging in a "high pressure' game, Columbia's swift rise in the football world is investigated and professional tactics are found to be the reason, the University of Southern California jails one of its players because he was suspected of divulging plays, and Navy comes out for open proselyting of secondary school athletes. Get players "who average fifteen pounds heavier than the present run of material" says the Annapolis athletic director...
...Manhattan bank.* No name had been chosen last week but it was announced that Banker Gibson will be chairman of the board and president. Louis Graveraet Kaufman, president of Chatham, was to be made chairman of the executive committee. General Samuel McRoberts, Chatham chairman, will resign from active banking, remain a director...
Francis Bacon took all knowledge to be his province, but though his ambition was large his achievement was a little provincial. Herbert George Wells, in spite of all temptations to remain an English novelist, has gone Bacon one better. Wells's syllabus of knowledge, begun with The Outline of History, continued in The Science of Life, is now concluded (he says) in The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind. Disagreeing with Poet Keats.† Wells considers that all you need to know will be found under the heads of history, biology, economics...