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...something more valuable than controversy. Instead of forcing residents to continue pocketing tickets, Cambridge could compromise tradition with sanity by allowing all night parking on one side of the street. Making one side so temptingly legal, the city might coerce the now defiant motorists to park single file in- stead of haphazardly blocking both sides. The Fire Department admits that with one side clear even the chubby hook-and-ladder could slither through the city...
Titcomb agreed with Stead man, but added that the serge might be fiannel instead, and is folded over the wooden stick of Wilde...
...Romanovs. Through the war, they lived mostly on the family's East Prussian farm with their growing brood of princes and princesses (there are seven of them now). In 1940, when brother Wilhelm was killed in action in Flanders, Lulu became the Hohenzollern heir in his stead. In 1944 he barely escaped the Russian advance, and almost got nabbed by the Nazis too for knowing a thing or two (not much more) about the bomb plot on Hitler's life...
...chance for additional experience which would aid him as a coach were too enticing. He played for three years as a lineman with the Philadelphia Eagles. During those years, he had the chance to play every interior line position--center, tackle, and guard. That experience holds him in good stead now, since his pupils can present him with few problems which he hasn't faced personally...
That confidence, and the enormous in crease in the nation's prescription business (up 350% in the last ten years), reflect a revolution in U.S. medicine. In stead of writing a shotgun formula requiring half a dozen ingredients,* a doctor can now prescribe a single-bullet remedy, neatly packaged in advance, its purity guaranteed by the maker. Two-thirds of the drugs most commonly prescribed to day did not even exist 20 years ago. In place of the citrates and tartrates, the nux vomica and monkshood of an earlier day, the druggists' rows of glass-stoppered bottles...