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...needs special attention, he is sent to a central polyclinic or to a general or special hospital. Astonishing is ''the vast provision of convalescent home and sanatorium accommodation, probably larger in proportion to population than in any other civilized country." Health officials are making especially strenuous efforts to "liquidate"' tuberculosis and venereal disease. In all regions are special institutions for the treatment and cure of both...
...receiver of Chicago's La Salle Hotel suggested to the court that the hotel's creditors be allowed to sleep out their bills. The creditor would be charged regular rates for his accommodations which would be deducted from the amount which the La Salle owed him. Despite strenuous protest from representatives of the major stockholder, the court sanctioned the idea, remarking testily: "I am tired of all this quibbling over infinitesimal trifles. I will sign this order, and if you don't like it you can close the hotel...
...Bishop Perry's assessor, Bishop Cook's duties will be far from strenuous, involving such functions as consecrations, dinners, graduations, cornerstone-layings which the Presiding Bishop is too busy to attend. There was speculation last week as to Bishop Cook's chances of eventually becoming Presiding Bishop. But the Episcopal Church does not provide for recall of bishops, and Bishop Perry, 62, is a healthy tennis-player and onetime high-jumper...
...Dryden. The editors waited a long time for further news of the great work; were told that the poem was becoming difficult, and only half completed. The poet had struck some snags that never bothered Dryden, but was told to keep on and encouraged. After a few days strenuous wrestling with his verses the student telephoned the Critic office. He joyously told them that all his difficulties were over; he had solved the problem. No, he could not bring the poem over, he had torn...
...have remarked before on the strenuous pastimes of A. Lawrence Lowell, President emeritus. Many Harvard boys pride themselves on their prowess during Marblehead Race week, on their skill in trimming a lib, or on their strength on the main sheet, leaving their Socratic mentors in the Yard to find them new questions for the winter bluebook season. But they do not leave Dr. Lowell behind. Harvard's honored ex-president spent three days of July cruising from Mr. Desert Island in Maine, to Marlon on the Cape, and had so much animal spirits left when he arrived there that...