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...where to draw the line: In case of abdominal pain, laxatives should be avoided and if the pain lasts more than four hours, a doctor should be called; if a child sniffles, he probably has only a cold and it is nothing to worry about; if he has a sore throat, fever or delirium, a doctor should be summoned...
...added obligation of a student of military age who should use his deferment or his reserve corps status to his fullest capacity while in the University. So far the war has had little effect on college life. This new regulation will hit the undergraduate in a very sore point and it will certainly force a more rigorous academic life. But it is a necessary change to meet the problems of a war time liberal arts college and it is neither small nor unimportant...
...Storage Sore Point...
...renewed "muggings" on Manhattan's streets disclosed that Drama Critic George Jean Nathan had been assaulted at 2 a.m. on Fifth Avenue. Two strangers jumped him from behind, knocked him down, tried to throw him through a plate glass window, went off without robbing him. He got a sore rib, a thoroughly shredded overcoat...
Though he is no friend of the farm bloc, Prentiss Brown will get along with Congress far better than Leon Henderson. He is quiet, unobtrusive, unspectacular. He has a politico's respect for sore toes. And on Capitol Hill he is known warmly as an engaging, modest first-termer who arrived in Washington as a wearer of old-fashioned nightshirts, a man whose idea of a good time was to visit Washington's old cemeteries...