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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shots of thyroid or pituitary hormones enable a dwarf to fit into a man-sized suit of clothes, a young boy to sing basso profundo. Spectacular as the results of hormone treatment may be, doctors are still in the dark about the exact size of the injection in many unusual cases, have dared to administer only conservative amounts of hormone over long periods of time. Last year Physiologists R. Deanesly and Alan Sterling Parkes of the National Institute for Medical Research at London grew tired of performing innumerable injections in their laboratory, decided that they needed a "laborsaving device." They...
...truth is that the Hygiene Department under the direction of Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, has expanded. Through the endowment provided by the Grant Foundation 13 Holyoke was remodeled during the summer to suit the requirements of Dr. Bock in connection with his intended study of the healthy Harvard...
...rules (86 of them) aim to speed and attain. New in the U. S. (but familiar in England) is a provision for pre-trial hearings,† wherein a judge (who later is not the trial judge) calls before him the lawyers for both sides of a civil suit, determines with them the real issues involved, weeds out unessential witnesses, evidence and testimony, shortcuts the lawyers' technical maneuvers, (demurrers, motions to strike out, etc., etc.), thus saves time for the trial judge, jury and clients. The new rules also provide...
...conference opened inauspiciously. Expecting a fine turnout, the association hired Pittsburgh's biggest hall, Syria Mosque. At the first session, attend ance was to the mosque's capacity as Mr. Emery's $50,000 business is to U. S. Steel Corp. A Philadelphia cloak & suit man named Charles Bloome offered a resolution to move the convention downtown so that he could save 75? cab fare each way. Mr. Emery: "Why can't five delegates ride in the same cab?" Mr. Bloome: "No five small businessmen could ride 75? worth together without getting in a fight." Thereupon...
...most famous courses in the country, and the mid-year and final exams with their long memory question and 60 to 70 "spot" passages were the terror of generations. During his reign he insisted on "Shakspere" as the correct spelling. His students will never forget the pearl gray fiannel suit he invariably wore, the glasses that flew up his lapel to their hanger with never a hitch, and his pungent injunctions against coughing...