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...city ordinance in question, which has been periodically enforced since it was first passed in 1898, provides that all children under 16 (not 16 or under) must be off the streets by 9:30 o'clock. The ruling will affect only the four Freshmen who have not yet reached their sixteenth birthdays...
Producer Abbott apparently believes that the impending suit will not affect the play, for the family of February Hill is named Harris and lives in Fall River, whereas the family of The Primrose Path is named Wallace and lives in "a small town near Buffalo...
...separate hormone. Riddle exposed some of these as "ghosts." He believes the number of definitely established front-lobe hormones to be small-five at most. These possible five are 1) thyrotropin, the thyroid-stimulator; 2) adrenotropin, which acts on the adrenals; 3) and 4), "FSH" and "LH" which affect the ovaries or testes; 5) prolactin...
Mother Love. Six years ago, by a repeated complicated procedure called "isoelectric precipitation," the Riddle laboratory crew obtained a pituitary substance which did not noticeably affect the thyroid or the sex glands, but which had a marked effect on the mammary glands. It started milk production not only in normal female guinea pigs but also in spayed females and males. In pigeons it thickened the crop sac, which provides a liquid ("pigeon milk") with which pigeons feed their young. Riddle called this new hormone prolactin...
Appeaser. To most polite Britons the German boycott was a shocking lapse of manners. To the London press the "banquet incident" loomed bigger than any far-off territorial dispute. But Mr. Chamberlain's own words at the banquet proved that no question of taste would affect the Prime Minister's appease-the-dictators policy. Avoiding the use of the word "appeasement," a term no longer very popular in England, Mr. Chamberlain said he would continue to make a "prolonged and determined effort to eradicate possible causes of war and to try out methods of personal contact and discussion...