Word: tonics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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People grow bald because follicles from which hair grows die or become stunted. A dead follicle can never be revived. A stunted one may be. Rarely does a scalp get so fouled with germs or fungus that follicles die and hair falls out. Despite hair tonic advertisements, dandruff, per se, does not cause baldness...
...high mortality in applications for large mortgages is a limiting factor in FHA's ability to promote a building boom. But in normal times, one-family and two-family houses account for 60% of the dollar volume of U. S. residences. Thus FHA insurance remains a potent tonic for U. S. building. With Government backing added to general recovery, many a builder looks forward to 1936 residential contracts totaling $1,000,000,000. And the next five years should see new accommodations for at least 250,000 families a year...
...Harvard-Yale Ball at the Copley Friday night, and a CRIMSON interviewer, didn't mind the unfairness of it all, but merely remarked that he was a college man, very used to it all, and fond of the Hub (but not over fond), comparing the district to a spring tonic (at any time of year...
...study English, although the work was largely philological and abstruse. He draws fascinating portraits of some of his instructors and colleagues there. Consistently an upholder of the liberal, appreciative approach to literature at Harvard Perry confesses that the discipline of sheer grinding on etymological facts and tables was a tonic...
...Commissioner Sanders. Paul Robeson is Bosambo, a reformed convict who becomes chief of a small tribe. Nina Mae McKinney (Hallelujah) is his wife. The part of King Mofolaba, a scapegrace chief whose misdemeanors account for most of the action, is ably played by a 77-year-old Negro hair-tonic specialist named Toto Wane. When, inflamed by contraband gin, he executes a white man and then plots to kill and skin Paul Robeson, it is too much for Commissioner Sanders. He turns back from a contemplated trip to England, arrives via airplane, shoots King Mofolaba, rewards Robeson for loyal assistance...