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...kept their prices unchanged when other leading companies were raising theirs last April. Now motormakers were reported to be bitterly regretting their action, and wanting to reduce prices again without losing face. Chevrolet pointed the way by announcing a new model with a few changes and a lower price. Terra-plane followed. Last week the new Chevrolet model was on display at the 61 General Motors' shows throughout the land. General Motors also slashed other Chevrolet prices as much as $50, Pontiac prices...
...Advisers to the Expedition are: Professor Joseph Barcroft, Cambridge, England; Dr. Hellinut De Terra, Yale University; Lawrence J. Henderson, professor of Biological Chemistry; Earnest A. Hooton, Professor of Anthropology; Professor August Krogh, Copenhagen University; Professor Alfred Redfield, Harvard University; Dr. Donald D. Van Slyke, Rockefeller Institute...
...then each drank from the cup. . . . Then some one came down and killed the animals, and perhaps arranged the drugged bodies, and when that was done earth was flung from above." India. As mountains go, Asia's toplofty Himalayas are young. Yale's Dr. Hellmut de Terra thinks they are even younger than is commonly supposed, that climatic changes caused by their vigorous upthrusts may have influenced the evolution of man and anthropoid apes. Geologist de Terra organized the Yale North India Expedition, took along a biologist, a paleontologist and Mrs. de Terra as photographer. After 15 months...
...Physicians' Art Club at the Academy of Medicine. Sole medical subject in the show was medical in name only-Vitamins, a composition of a lemon, oranges, a grapefruit, potatoes, filled whiskey and milk bottles, by Club Secretary Dr. Henry Amabric Bancel. Dr. Walter Beran Wolfe showed a polychromed terra cotta Self Portrait with black lips, a plaster pictorialization of his name which consisted of a bear with a W in his left paw astride a wolf. The latter he called a "glyptogram." Dr. Frank H. Netter had a courteous portrait of Dr. Charles Norris, New York's Chief...
...Stillwell was excited when he uncovered a mosaic floor 31 by 24 ft., laid by Romans of the empire period. Its central panel depicted a palm-bearing athlete and a seated figure of Eutychia. In the nearby temple of Aesculapius, Patron of Healing, Professor Stillwell's men found terra cotta models of parts of the human body, apparently brought by invalids as votive offerings. Palestine. And when Jehu was come . . . Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window. . . . And he lifted up his face to the window...