Word: usual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baldwin Government, elected in the fall of 1924, still has two years to run before its five-year mandate expires, although it is usual for a government to hold a general election before that time, but a decision to submit its position to the test of an election depends almost entirely upon the will of the Cabinet. Today there is a good deal of dissatisfaction in the land and much loud grumbling, which is more characteristic than specific. But Mr. Baldwin still holds a very comfortable majority in the House of Commons, and the chances are, therefore, that there will...
...Hospital, Chicago, Dr. Alfred P. Solomon, neurologist, last week, hypnotized a young woman. During the hour she lay so, Dr. Harold G. Jones of Chicago opened her abdomen and removed several bothersome adhesions. She felt no pain and, upon awakening, experienced none of the nauseating after-effects of usual anesthetics. Such operations upon hypnotized patients are rare in the U. S. In Europe (notably in France and Germany) they are frequent. Europeans esteem the uses of hypnotism. They used it for surgical operations 100 years ago. The discovery in 1848 of chloroform's anesthetic properties curtailed the practice somewhat...
...scene, chased by bootleggers. It turns out that she had rescued Jimmie from--drowning one day when she happened to be speeding by in a mahogany speedboat, and it had been love at first sight all along although on account of complications, loyalties, and the rest of the usual good old hokum, everybody isn't happy until the end of the last...
...play is short (out at 10:30) and chopped small in episodes. These waits weaken interest. Mr. Ames' excellent staging is not so excellent as usual. Mr. Galsworthy's thesis is engrossing in a faintly inhibited fashion. "Gentleman worship" is a cult most of the U.S. envies, tries to copy, fails perhaps to understand. For almost any U.S. actor, the part would have been impossible; for Mr. Howard it is a goal unerringly achieved. The Taming of the Shrew develops into a pretty feeble farce along toward the latter half, but up to that time, perhaps unto...
Acid Cell. The usual type of storage cell contains sheets of spongy lead separated from sheets of spongy lead peroxide in a weak solution of sulphuric acid. During discharge, the acid forms sulphate of lead on both plates; during charge, lead and lead perioxide are again formed on their respective plates...