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Picking up whatever implements they could lay their hands on, a band of marauders broke into the school and proceeded to thwack, whack, hack their way through each & every one of its dozen classrooms. They battered blackboards into slate piles and desks into kindling, doused gobs of ink on walls, disemboweled a piano, scuttled kitchen 'equipment, tore up writing paper, tore down wall clocks, scattered movable and immovable objects on the floor until thousands of dollar? of damage had been done and the building looked like a Hollywood set at the end of an Edward G. Robinson cinema. What...
...taken by Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri, whose practice has been to sit ruminating while the committee's lawyers ran the Van Sweringen show. But a time has come in almost each day's testimony when Senator Truman has felt impelled to bring his palms down whack on the green covered committee table and speak his mind-in virtually identical terms: "These hearings have very plainly brought out that holding companies and New York bankers are not the proper people to run the railroads. ..." Last week he added: "Holding companies are as great an evil...
...resistant time- piece"- a clock driven by a 1,000-cycle tuning fork, which is in turn driven by a fourstage amplifier. This apparatus is accurate to one-tenth of a second per day and Dr. Benioff was sure last week that it would not be put out of whack by a quake unless the walls of the observatory themselves tumbled...
...spine. Most men who die in delirium tremens die because their hearts give way. Drs. Piker & Cohn prevent that by loading the patient with digitalis. Digitalis, besides being a heart regulator, is a diuretic, something the raving drunkard requires. In delirium tremens the digestive system is out of whack. Drs. Piker & Cohn wash out the patient's stomach, purge him with cascara and Epsom salts, feed him well. And three times daily the doctors alkalize the patient with potus imperialis, a drink of ½ oz. cream of tartar dissolved in 3 pints of water, sweetened and flavored with lemon...
President Winter also took a valedictory whack at Dentist Leroy L. Hartman of Columbia University, whose dental pain-killer created great hopes among patients, great consternation among dentists, who found that it did not always work (TIME, Feb. 3). Dr. Hartman last week told the A. D. A. all about Hartman's Solution, his method of applications, and the types of cavities it is suited for. Dr. Paul Wells of Chicago reported that of 23,000 patients treated, 30% felt no pain whatsoever after application of Hartman's Solution, 30% felt some pain, 40% gained no anesthesia whatsoever...