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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Also played in Mexico, all the South American countries, Southern France, Brussels, Shanghai, Tientsin, in addition to its birthplace, Spain. First introduced to the U. S. at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, it has been tried out within the past decade at Chicago and New Orleans with no great success, has been a No. 1 tourist attraction at Miami since...
Most heroic of modern therapeutic measures is artificial fever treatment. If a patient with gonorrhea, St. Vitus' dance or atrophic arthritis is willing to lie snugly in a hot box or expose himself to short-wave radiation for periods varying from two to ten hours, sometimes several times a week, while his temperature is pushed up seven or eight degrees, he stands a good chance of recovery. Whether the intense heat kills the germs, or stimulates the body to produce germicidal substances doctors do not know. Only ill effect of intense heat was delirium, now prevented by copious draughts...
Landing in Manhattan John Fitzgerald Kennedy, son of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, brought a gift to President Roosevelt: a harpoon...
...years in Europe, he thought, would be enough, and then, after studying law in Boston, he would move to St. Louis...
...never practiced law in St. Louis, and he became, in his own eyes at least, a failure. He also became the most puzzling and complex of American men of letters-a politician who was also an expert in medieval architecture, a novelist who wrote under a pseudonym and accused his friends of writing his books, a leading historian who announced flatly that histories were all lies, an amateur geologist, economist, photographer and naturalist, and an author whose two masterpieces were published despite his strenuous efforts to suppress them...