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...Lesser triumphs, such as beating up Bowery toughs, are scarcely worth mentioning. "A remarkable child," you'll say. The fact is that Jane Withers really has a forward, winning way about her, even if her sauey brogue in this picture, on the authority of our Irish friends, is a bit spurious...
...feel most funny when he did ask me for my "license". He, I found, being hard of hearing, I did have an exceedingly difficult time explaining it was not marriage we did want but the nearest gas station. Whereupon, he did close his book, and he was a bit peeved I would think, did show us his phone, and he back to bed. By and by, after much ado, to her home, and I, finally, and very glad at my heart, to the Tower...
...more than a week, too, since the New Deal had begun to grope for an AAA substitute and Mr. Hoover thought the time was opportune to steal a march on the New Deal by getting in a bit of constructive criticism. Said he: "Instead of trying to find a balance to Agriculture by paying the farmer to curtail a crop, we should endeavor to expand another crop which can be marketed or which would improve the fertility of the soil. We import vast quantities of vegetable oils, sugar and other commodities. . . . We need to replenish our soils with legumes...
...same thing-"hysteria," "mental anesthesia," "self-hypnosis," "a neurotic's struggle with reality." Because the girl was able to perform the feat of holding her arms upraised for 40 minutes when an ordinary person would tire in ten, no one suggested she was faking. Not the least bit interested in what the doctors thought were the Tapps and their devout friends. They bridled when it was suggested Shirley be hospitalized. Instead, the Full Salvationists jampacked the little room which resounded with hymns, prayers, exhortations...
...gram of protoactinium oxide. In a phosgene chlorinating bath this was transposed to a chloride. Using the method evolved by General Electric's famed Irving Langmuir. Dr. von Grosse spread the chloride on a tungsten filament in a vacuum, heated the filament, boiled off the chlorine, obtained his bit of pure protoactinium...