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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...combined with George T. Lanigan, the writer, to establish the Montreal Star. Cancer is the great enigma of medical science. Many of the most dreaded diseases have been brought under control or greatly mitigated-smallpox with vaccine, typhoid fever with chlorination, diphtheria with antitoxin, tuberculosis with an all-round hygienic program, yellow fever with mosquito control, leprosy with chaulmoogra oil, diabetes with insulin. But cancer goes marching on with no apparent check. Indeed, the cancer death rate in the registration area of the United States has risen gradually but steadily until in 1921 it was 86 per 100,000 population...
Jess Willard, huge anachronism of the ring, struck a blow for middle-aged men. The blow landed flush on the point of Floyd Johnson's jaw in the closing seconds of the eleventh round of their fight at the New York Yankee ball park. The force of Willard's fist lifted Johnson off his feet and he dropped like a dead man. He was unable to answer the bell for the twelfth round. Willard, 42 years old, had knocked out the best of the young heavyweights, a man young enough...
...true, as the report states, that "no plan of distribution can satisfactorily solve the seating problem", since there simply are not enough tickets to go round. The Committee's task, then, is more psychological than mathematical; the best it can do is to convince everyone that he is getting a "square deal." In past years the chief complaint has come down from those who were allowed to believe that they would get two or more tickets, and found at the last minute that they were left with only one. The new plan does not eliminate that fault. Those who apply...
...athletics and football in particular, "is one of relative values; and it must be met, in our opinion, by following the principle that athletics is an element in the education of the individual to be given its due place but no more than that; the object being the all-round development -- intellectual, physical, and moral--of the student." Only one criticism of this is possible--the idea of athletics as a means rather than an end has become so fixed in all intelligent discussion of the problem at Harvard, that to approve such an idea has become almost a platitude...
Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce: "My department published a news-release entitled Foodstuffs 'Round the World. It bore the headline: 'Swiss Cheese Stages Strong Comeback...