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...placed in other hands, the literary monthly has been left with more ample opportunity and attention less distracted to perform functions more important and fundamental, to publish the best of undergraduate writing, to allow the newest generation of authors to try its wings in print, to provide a healthy vent for the ideas and abilities of these aspiring writes, and to subject them and their efforts to a healthy criticism...
Geysers are caused when water plugs a vent from the earth's hot interior to the surface. The interior heat boils the deep water, which at first cannot escape because of the weight of the water higher up in the hole. A moment arrives when steam pressure is enough to lift all the water out of the hole. At that moment practically all the pent water suddenly changes to steam. The geyser spouts, subsides, until the critical steam pressure is again built up by subterranean heat...
...Wendel sisters waxed and waned under the tyrannous rule of a brother whose whole life was bounded by the limits of his New York real estate, gathered under the ancestral maxim "buy but never sell". Once sister Georgiana gave vent to all the suppressed inhibitions so common, as the psychologists have pointed out, to middle aged victorians, and fied to the chaste red plush of the old Park Avenue Hotel. Her insubordination was dearly bought, however, for she was proved mentally unbalanced and passed the remainder of her days in a gloomy asylum for the insane. Ella conformed...
...drugs - neither galenicals, minerals, chemicals, vitamins nor hormones - pre vent the growth of Cancer...
...Denson, threat to withdraw Federal aid ($340,000 Governor Bilbo gave in, re Mr. Denson with L. A. Olsen, agree to Secretary Hyde. The American Medical Association served notice that unless members of the University's faculty of medicine were re it would use its influence to pre vent Mississippi graduates from practicing any other State. Governor Bilbo rein stated medical teachers, gave the new head of the faculty (approved by A. M. A.) a raise. The Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools of the Southern States in its meeting three weeks ago suspended Mississippi's four colleges...