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Russell Morrison Evans, Jr., 15, coasting down a Pittsburgh hill, saw that he was about to slide into a pole. He threw himself from the sled, crashed into another pole. Something seemed to break within his abdomen. At Homeopathic Medical & Surgical Hospital where his doctor father took him, x-rays showed that he had ruptured his spleen...
...quarrymen the blast would churn up 1,125,000 tons of limestone, sufficient to supply the blast furnaces of Inland Steel Co. (which controls the stone company) one year. For seismologists the blast would show how much of an effect a 220-ton jolt had on the 6.6 x 1021-ton earth. The knowledge would give them something precise by which to measure the forces underlying all earthquakes...
Aware of how public morbidity has been exploited by the publishers of such gang-war books as X Marks the Spot, Publisher Putnam is shrewd enough to attempt to elevate the moral tone of his volume by making it a "document against war." He hopes that peace societies will buy and distribute The Horror of It on the theory that war is the best propaganda against war. To add to the book's respectability, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Rockefeller pastor, and Carrie Chapman Catt were enlisted to write forewords on the peace theme. Dr. Fosdick...
Tomorrow's talk will be the last of a series of 12 lectures which have been given every Sunday since the first week in January. The following subjects among others, have been discussed: "Modern Conceptions of the Brain at Work", "Cancer", "What the X-Ray can and Cannot Do", "The White House Conference and Oral Hygiene", "Asthma, Hay Fever, and Allied Conditions", and "Rheumatic Heart Disease in Children and Adults...
...bouts in the order that they will be fought are: 115-pound final bout between T. J. Curtin '34 and J. L. Madden ocC.; unlimited semi-final bout between E. X. Rosenblat 1L. and N. L. Tenney '35; 135-pound semi-final bout between G. J. Huberman '34 and R. R. Borden '35; 135-pound semi-final bout between S. H. Forbes '34 and A. B. Sullivan '34; 125-pound final bout between T. J. Curtin '34 and Leslie Williams '33; 145-pound semi-final bout between G. M. Ferguson 3G. and G. M. Gaetan '32; 145-pound semi-final...