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...these same leisure hours that Grant took to "solitary drinking" because (his present biographer is a disciple of passe Freud) he had no Mexican mistress, shrank from raucous army companions, refused to attend a second bullfight. Considerable drunkenness was overlooked in those days, but Grant's must have been more than considerable, for he drank himself out of the army, thereby blundering upon the road to fame. If he had stayed in the army, which he detested and disapproved but hadn't the initiative to quit, he would have had a conventional small command in the Civil...
...purporting to be from C. L. Dean of Burlington, Iowa, caused me to inquire about him there to learn the reason for his bias against Christian Science. Careful inquiries at Burlington have failed to find any C. L. Dean.* Apparently, therefore, the writer of the letter in question shrank behind an assumed name or place. His letter, however, indexed him to a certain extent by evincing heated intolerance for Christian Scientists because we choose to depend on spiritual law, power, and practice for prevention or relief from disease. Therefore, I maintain that his intolerance is at least less creditable than...
...rivers of New England spent last week recovering from their stroke of autumn apoplexy. As they shrank back to normal, the mills that they used to turn, the power plants they used to keep humming, emerged from the flood covered with muck. Winter began to shut down and the muck froze. Much New England industry was crippled for months to come...
...published the results of a year's investigation on farm incomes and farm prosperity. According to Dr. Taylor, farmers in 1924 received 10.6% of the national income; 10.2% in 1925 and 9.7% in 1926. There were, he said, 444 farm bankruptcies for every working day of 1926; agricultural population shrank 2,000,000 between 1920 and 1925, though the U. S. population increased 8,500,000 in the same period; 31,000,000 acres of land went out of agricultural use in 1920-25; and at the present rate of agricultural shrinkage the time will soon come when poor crops...
...ductless gland secretion) responsible for the physiology of female animals, by Professor Edward Laqueur, who called his find "menformon." The effect upon female laboratory animals: restored typical mating reactions in spayed (sterilized) specimens; enlarged organs; sped up physiological reactions. Administered to males, it did not affect physiological reactions but shrank organs, this effect continuing for months after injections were stopped. Significance: a potential potency elixir...