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...students accept as gospel, but they were made enjoyable and often very amusing by some clever dialogue and by a pair of Hollywood's best wise-crackers. In the latest of the series, "The Shadow of the Thin Man," the former redeeming feature has been scrubbed away to the bone, and nothing is left but Mr. Hammett's amazingly naked dramatic structure. William Powell, as detective Nick Charles, still finds great sport in solving murders while sipping highballs' surprisingly enough, no criminal has yet thought of swiping his cocktail shaker and thus eliminating Charles as God's gift...
...Phineas P. Gage, according to Myrtelle May Canavan, Curator of the Museum, led a most extraordinary and amazing existence. While tapping some explosives into a crevice back in 1818, Phineas accidently set the dynamite off and a 13 pound crowbar was driven clean through his skull from jaw bone to the back of his head...
Optimism has a great appetite, and is likely to feed so happily and so fast on morsels like these that nothing ever comes of it but the gas pains of bad morale. But last week the world was offered food for optimism which was solid food, stuff for bone and muscle...
...grown wheat has an unusually high protein content, and six times more phosphorus than standard flour. Deaf Smith milk has 30% more phosphorus than the accepted standards for milk; carrots, turnip greens, beans, lettuce and cabbage are also rich in the mineral. All these elements are essential for building bone and muscle...
...study stage, Colonel Lord's "globular survey" last week appeared to be coming out of the woods. This week EDB will present to OPM Venezuela's itemized 1942 needs for strategic materials and machinery. No non-strategic items were included, and the list was pared to the bone by Señores Mendoza and Boulton, rechecked by Colonel Lord's office. The agreed-upon total (10% less than Venezuela's actual purchases of similar U. S. materials in 1940): $39,543,700 worth of goods, ranging from $30,000 in steel doors for the vaults...