Word: thinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once the curious began to ask: "Will Stearns be another Colonel House?" The facts of the relationship between Mr. Stearns and the President seem to be simply these: that Stearns has supported Coolidge through the thick and thin of politics. That he was Coolidge's right hand man in the settlement of the Boston police strike. These activities earned Stearns the titles from political opponents of "Lord Lingerie" and "Cal's Angel." As far as several able political correspondents can make out, however, the relation between Mr. Stearns and the new President is only about as "sinister" as friendship...
...error. Mormonism?the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints?was founded by Joseph Smith, whose parents and grandparents were seers and diviners, at Manchester, N. Y., in 1830. Instructed, he said, by revelation, Smith supposedly dug up a " supplement to the New Testament" written on thin gold plates, and known as The Book of Mormon. On the strength of this "revelation," which declared him to be "God's prophet, entitled to all obedience," Smith founded the Mormon body...
Voronoff puts his patient and a healthy young monkey side by side on operating tables. A local anaesthetic is given the man, and a general one to the monkey. The incisions are made, and one of the monkey's gonads is sliced into six pieces thin enough for the interstitial cells of the patient quickly to interpenetrate them. In earlier operations Voronoff had failures because the transplanted portions were too thick and died before they could knit up with the human glands. Within a few weeks the new tissue becomes continuous with the old, and its hormones begin their beneficial...
...Peter Schmidt, a colleague of Steinach, who claims to have performed 85 of the operations himself, made very rosy predictions in an address at Berlin last week. Indefinite prolongation of life by a series of Steinach operations is well within the bounds of possibility, he said, asserting that thin men might be made fat, and fat men thin, the timbre of the voice transformed, and arterio -sclerosis cured. Steinach himself is expecting to undergo his operation shortly, it is said, though...
...Texas, won the championship from Lucien Williams and Arnold Jones of Yale. Five sets were necessary. In the third the Texans were twice within two points of victory but receded before a violent rally which the Yale players sustained through two sets. The effort, however, wore their game thin and the Southerners won as they pleased in the closing games. The score...