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...years ago next week the U. S. entered the tenth and worst depression in its history. On the morning of October 24, 1929, the stockmarket that had been slowly declining skidded sickeningly, plunged down, and kept on going. Unknown to anybody, its future unforeseen, its consequences incalculable, the Great Depression set in. But it was not called that. The names that people give to things reveal what they think about them, and the name that the U. S. gave to its crisis was the ringing and melodramatic Crash...
...beginning of a national emergency, perhaps the greatest since the period when an Illinois lawyer named Abraham Lincoln, brooding over a political speech, decided to let the phrase, "a house divided against itself cannot stand," remain in the text. Off in the unknown future lay a sequence of collisions and calamities, no one of which would have been believed for a minute by the industrious philosophers of 1929. While the echoes of the crash were still rolling, the ardent Charles Mitchell, supersalesman of the boom years, said calmly, "I am still of the opinion that the reaction has badly overrun...
Pineapple juice has long been swigged by wormy natives of India, but until the Wisconsin scientists put it to laboratory test, its anthelmintic virtues were unknown to modern medicine. The scientists dropped a pair of living ascarids, taken from hogs' intestines, in a jar of juice freshly squeezed from a Cuban pineapple. Another group of worms was doused in "heat-inactivated" pineapple juice; a third in plain salt water. At the end of 24 hours the worms in the heated juice and the salt water were "very lively and active." But those in the fresh pineapple juice were "completely...
...fifth Sophomore is really an unknown. The name is Loren McKinney and you won't even find him listed with last year's Freshman squad, for he de-injury. He's tops in ends on the devoted his time to studies instead. This year he shot to a first team berth like a bolt from the blue...
...Krieger's as mediocre as Fuller maintains, our conclusion is that Dartmouth is playing the sucker; for Bob annually pays his college bills and has money in the bank left over from funds unknown...