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...halitosis-conscious. Since then newspaper and magazine advertising pages have been smeared with warnings of strange afflictions discovered by copywriters. Last week Printers' Ink counted up 93, of which 63 directly concern the human body. Nineteen afflict the skin, 13 concern the oral cavity, eight visit the digestive tract. Counting five bad-breath plagues included in the oral category, twelve have to do with nasty smells...
...Dining Halls. Dr. Means last night made public a letter from Dr. Gaylord W. Anderson, Director of the Division of Communicable Diseases of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in which he called the malady "characteristic of the infections disseminated through the secretions of the upper respiratory tract...
Arriving at Matanuska Valley, 125 mi. inland from Seward, each transplanted family will get a 40-acre tract, a log cabin, livestock and farm equipment. They will have 30 years to pay the Government $3,000, with 3% interest, the first payment due in four years. The cabins will have built-in furniture, running water. A physician, dentist and Red Cross nurse will be in attendance. Warmed by 20 hr. per day of summer sunlight and wet by heavy rains, Matanuska loam yields whopping crops. The Japanese Current keeps winter temperatures well above those of northern Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin...
...five years Carleton Beals has had a fine time writing books to prove that U. S. money is the curse of Latin America. In his tract on the Capitalistic Rover Boys in Cuba, entitled The Crime of Cuba, he lambasted the then U. S. Ambassador Harry F. Guggenheim whose family had given Baiter Beals a Guggenheim Fellowship to study imperialism in Mexico. Fact was that last week Journalist Beals had not made up his mind about the present regime of President Carlos Mendieta and Chief of Staff Fulgencio Batista...
...doughnuts on breakfast menus may indicate that the Director of Athletics has interested himself in this latest intercollegiate competition. If this be the case the student body should endeavor to compete. Experience has shown that without dunking a doughnut is dry eating and may become lodged in the digestive tract. The recent remarkable reductions in time have been due to an improved technique of motion that brings the doughnut from the coffee cup to the mouth in the shortest possible arc. Let us forget our gastronomic niceties for a bit. If one of our number is successful it may signify...