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Ever since undergraduates ate in Mem Hall on the Delta and complained, "Lo! the butter stinketh!" there have been complaints about Harvard food. The petition currently being circulated may be described merely as the umpteenth in a series...
...umpteenth time Sister Elizabeth Kenny, the Australian nurse who developed the Kenny treatment for infantile paralysis, last week threatened to go home. Her running feud with orthodox medical men has long enlivened the press (TIME, Sept. 27, 1943; June 26). And her forthright disposition has earned her the nicknames "The Duchess" and "Madam Queen." Not satisfied when doctors accept her methods, she insists that they also accept her theories-theories that many experts say lack proof...
...General spoke with feeling. Last week, for the umpteenth time, the U.S. Government turned down a distilling-industry plan for a "holiday" from industrial alcohol production-and this time it was the General's own plan...
...applied a merciless diplomatic pincer. (The Russian planes, blasting Kotka and Helsinki, were the other pincer-prong.) Secretary of State Cordell Hull gave the Finns a final warning to get out of the war (see p. 34). This was patient Cordell Hull's umpteenth move toward this effect...
...citizens were reminded for the umpteenth time of the incredible energy and resolution which set Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt apart from ordinary women: the First Lady reported in her column of Jan. 12 that she had been out the day before buying "some Christmas presents for the coming year...