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...tuberculosis bacillus is a tiny rod-shaped germ, which causes peculiar little translucent, greyish nodules the size of millet seeds. The phthisis victim loses weight, wastes away. He suffers from a fever that fluctuates with the time of day.* Prevention should start in childhood, the period when a predisposition to the disease may be developed, Professor Gaetano Ronzoni, of Milan, said to the International Union. Later, it is possible to cure a patient with persistent, attentive care...
...Scarlet Letter (Lillian Gish). This latest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release preserves in spirit, mood, sequence, the true proportions of Hawthorne's novel. Praise for a picture can mount no higher. Hester Prynne and Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale break the seventh commandment. The heavy rod of seventeenth century New England righteousness falls upon them both -upon Hester socially, upon Dimmesdale spiritually. In spite of numerous opportunities for sentimental errata, the film records truly, as the novelist saw, the inevitably tragic and ennobling consequences of their suffering. One might wish that the bravery and sacrifice of the Puritan community had been represented...
...ground, where danger would have been minimized? Can they discount the contention of Professor Pupin of Columbia University, as given by Hearst-Editor Brisbane, that sheet copper roofings connected by huge copper bands directly with wet earth would have frustrated even this "act of God?" The system of lightning rod protectors at Lake Denmark is obviously inefficient. The Government controls immense voltages of electricity at Niagara Falls; why have not engineers sought a method to control electrical attacks on the concentrated sudden death at Dover? Were the officials negligent in permitting habitation near the arsenal? Will new storage plants...
...Burst into unseemly shouts of "Hi! Ho! Hum!" when His Majesty's Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod rapped thrice on the Commons' door to summon them before the bar of the Lords...
...Lifted disdainful eyebrows as the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod shepherded before the bar of the Lords many an M. P. - several grumbling audibly at their obligation to hear read His Majesty's assent to the bill...