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Last week in Manhattan, at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, a report on the Clinic re-echoing the warnings of Drs. Coffey & Humber was read by Dr. Burton Thorn Simpson, who spent three weeks there observing. Said he: "I did not observe that this treatment [injection of an extract derived from the cortex of the adrenal glands] had any beneficial result and I would certainly advise against any patient going there in hope of a cure. ... A cancer cure . . . must cause cancer to disappear ... for at least five years. The Coffey treatment has been applied...
...Thorn Sutures. When wounds are too large for the biting ants, a thorn is thrust through the two sides. A string fastened around the protruding ends draws the wound together...
...paraded under California noses accompanied loudly by the contemporary byword: "Give 'em the axe!" A group of muscular Californians, incensed, wrested the axe from Stanford, bore it away to Berkeley where, for the past 31 years, it has remained. The annual California axe rally has been a thorn in Stanford's suntanned side...
Like Paul I bear my thorn in the flesh, try to keep from going to sleep when Coolidge reads a propagandized speech over the radio, "and listen like a three-years child" when Fosdick so graciously modernizes. And I will submit to an operation on aforementioned when a doctor satisfactorily explains to me how Tschaikowsky wrote his tragedic waltz "De Fleurs," or where Clara Bow found...
...antiquated telephone system of Randolph and Apthorp House has been a thorn in the flesh of its inmates for some time. Although an attractive notion, it is futile to carry Idealism so far as to consider that college students go to bed at twelve o'clock. Telephone service is as necessary after that hour as before. For the man who has ever been taken ill in the middle of the night and been obliged to reel to the nearest public phone to call a doctor, no further argument is necessary. Then the University, with its usual business acumen and perspicacity...