Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doings please Poppa completely. He is proud of the share Hot Dogs Cohen & Corcoran had in drafting the Public Utility Holding Company Act and the Securities Exchange Act, both expressions of the Brandeis-Frankfurter economic crusade against bigness and irresponsibility. But NRA left Mr. Frankfurter cold and suspicious. And though he did not publicly attack the Court Plan, he wrote an indignant letter of repudiation when an article in a British magazine gave out that Protégés Cohen & Corcoran had helped originate...
Captain Chester E. Sargent, the coach, hopes for a win over Avon, even though the team will play on strange ponies. At the Armory, both teams will be hampered by the absence of players. The Varsity lost a hard fought game against the Satirev team in its opener, 14-13, and since then has had only one practice...
...smaller rear lobe, two hormones have been fairly well identified (alpha-hypophamine and beta-hypophamine), which appear respectively to influence uterine contractions and blood pressure. Biochemist James Bertram Collip of Montreal's McGill University discovered a hormone of the middle pituitary (appropriately called intermedia) which affects, though it does not exclusively control, the blood sugar level...
Prolactin caused chickless hens and virgin rats to mother chicks and ratlets with great affection. This earned prolactin the nickname of "mother love" hormone. The implication of the discovery was that mother love, though doubtless fortified and colored in women by training and tradition has a physiological basis in a chemical substance-probably large protein molecules. (Dr. Riddle found that prolactin and other front-lobe hormones are disintegrated by trypsin, an enzyme which has the special property of "digesting" proteins...
...Best (though not the best written) biography of Macaulay since George Otto Trevelyan's (Macaulay's nephew), published in 1876, is Lord Macaulay (University of Oklahoma Press, $3), by Richmond Croom Beatty, a 40-year-old professor at Vanderbilt University. Outstanding is its fairness, its reconstruction of Macaulay's times. Macaulay's spectacular progress, says Biographer Beatty, came mainly from a powerful tail wind: the hurricane force of the rising industrial middle class, with which he unequivocally aligned himself against the land-owning Tory aristocrats. His limitations came from the fact that he identified "material progress...