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...next speaker, stout, square-jawed President George Zook of the American Council on Education, the medical men listened respectfully until they realized that he was suggesting that medical schools, like liberal arts colleges, should be allowed to certify that their graduates are fit to be doctors. Due to Abraham Flexner's book and its effect on public opinion, 40 states will not license to practice medicine the graduates of medical schools on the A. M. A.'s blacklist. When heretical Dr. Zook had finished, he was neatly reprimanded by brisk little Biologist Alphonse Mary Schwitalla, S. J., dean...
...glass flowers apparently never caused much concern among the architects of the University Museum. The massive horizontal timbers which support the several floors are not firmly attached to the walls. Instead, each end of the beam rests in an iron sling which is in turn suspended from a stout "bracketlike" bar, anchored in the wall masonry. All of which leaves the beam free to move in its supporting sling...
...friends were in charge. It made me wince. It was like nothing more than a fearful sort of public school, with willing fags, a glorious hierarchy of heroes in the persons of himself and his Volunteers, and floggings for the unwilling or rebellious. For the rest, all stout and jolly together, and daring the other nations to come on and be licked...
...your world. Authors Nordhoff & Hall, who for the last 16 years have lived in the South Seas as exiles from civilization, write about a hurricane as two having authority. As popularizers of the epic tale of H. M. S. Bounty they have learned how to spin a stout melodramatic yarn. Plot of The Hurricane is truer to Hollywood than to life, but the details of its color and setting are firsthand, first-rate...
Some took shelter in the solidly-built church; some roped themselves in the branches of stout trees; some huddled in boats moored in the comparatively sheltered lagoon. Terangi. his family and the French Administrator's wife were lashed in a tree. When the hurricane had made its first passover everything but one of the boats had been swept away. Because the survivors knew the torrent of wind and water would soon be back, from the opposite direction, they abandoned the boat, clung to a heap of coral crags. Somehow they lived through the second onslaught. In even more miraculous...