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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...start, great landing platforms over steamship piers, and a community arrangement around a circular field, its buildings rising in height as they recede from the centre. Next month at Cleveland, engineers will meet with architects, city planners, and flyers in an attempt to design best types of airports for various services. Lack of ports, like lack of trained flyers, is hampering the U. S. air industry. Flyers consider Croydon, near London, and the Tempelhof, near Berlin, at present the best equipped fields in the world. German flyers say Croydon as it was this past year was better than Tempelhof; British...
...pregnant. She may be bloated through hysteria or, more usually, have a benign tumor or a cancer. X-rays can help in the diagnosis. X-rays can also destroy the tumor, or the fetus. Radium is also therapeutically destructive. Just what effect radium, or X-rays in their various doses have on the growing fetus has been an uncertainty among doctors. Few have experimented in this regard on animals and none, so far as is known, on humans...
...have been miserable again. For the Nebraska capitol, now all but completed, was again being impugned. The charges lodged with the state legislature were identical in source and similar in substance to those which harassed the architect in 1923. Last week George E. Johnson, onetime Nebraska State Engineer, itemized various flaws-a great terrace bulging through its stone confines, priceless columns of tinted marble that were chipped and had been deceptively repaired; cracked stones. In 1923 his charges had been refuted and the document affirming their refutation signed by Engineer Johnson. Now, for some curious reason he has spoken again...
...translated from Indian ritual. The maize plant replaces the classical acanthus. There are friezes of pioneers and covered wagons and on the pinnacle of the tower will shortly stride the colossal image of a sower. In addition to this local legend are figures and inscriptions symbolizing great government. From various corners, growing architecturally out of the walls, the austere faces of great lawgivers survey the prairies-Hammurabi, Moses, Pharaoh, Solon, Solomon, the Caesars, Charlemagne, Napoleon. No carven motto is more obvious than that above the Supreme Court bench: "Eyes and ears are poor witnesses when the soul is barbarous...
Eight years ago Dr. Francis Marion Pottenger wrote a book, Tuberculosis and How to Combat it, upon the solicitation of patients at his Monrovia, Calif., sanatorium.* His philosophy of treating the disease for 28 years has included psychology with therapeutics. He lectures to his patients, explains to them the various ways that tuberculosis affects various people and their organs, why certain treatments are used, the ways of preventing the spread of infection. By answering all questions and avoiding obscurantism he has kept his patients from worry, that great handicap against treatment. His book, in which he organized his lectures...