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...never should have been printed in public places. Many medical men have been conditioned to believe that their doings and thinkings enjoy a sacred immunity from the ordinary processes of human curiosity. Well does TIME know the problem of reporting scientific news, but its responsibility toward Science differs no whit from its responsibility toward news of other human affairs...
...fact that they had sold more stock than Stutz ever issued embarrassed the sharpers not a whit. Burke merely pulled its market plug, plummeting Stutz stock lower than it was before they started. On the ground that the installment purchases were now under-margined, the retailing houses "sold out" their customers accounts (i. e. pocketed the deposits). Profits amounted to $800,000. Early this year Burke put on another Stutz campaign that netted $100,000 and was set for a third when SEC intervened. On the basis of its findings SEC will seek indictments...
Further testimony disclosed that, as everyone already knew, the Power lobby had employed its Constitutional right of petition to influence Congressmen against the bill by letters, telegrams, speeches, broadcasts, advertisements. But no whit of evidence was turned up to prove that Lobbyist Gadsden, descendant of the U. S. Minister to Mexico who negotiated the Gadsden Purchase, had used a single dollar of his funds to purchase votes or otherwise corrupt the Congress...
...best intercollegiate players in the East, is Penn's number one man. The match between Hecht and Captain Frank Jones will almost certainly go to three sets. Benny Friedman, of New York, who was outstanding last year as a Freshman, plays number two for the visitors. Fred Whit-beck, who was in excellent form yesterday afternoon, will have quite a fight to win from Friedman...
...head forward the fluid inertia of the blood would cause it to accumulate in the splanchnic (abdominal) pool and thus render the brain relatively anemic. This would increase drowsiness and assist in going to sleep in the noisy and vibrating berth, but would not necessarily make the sleep one whit more refreshing, in fact, possibly the exact opposite...