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...broke a bone in his instep last month...
...Folsom men, whose skeletons have never been found, but whose tools have turned up in abundance. "Folsom points" are weapons shaped like spearheads, with shallow grooves flaked out on each side. First Folsom find was made near Folsom, N. M., in 1926. The weapons were intermingled with the bones of long-extinct bison. Skeptical anthropologists first wrote off this association as accidental. Then Jesse Dade Figgins of Colorado, one of the Folsom pioneers, found two points actually between the ribs of a fossil bison. He left the exhibit undisturbed in the ground, summoned anthropologists to come and look. They...
...Vitamins come in for special attention when sunshine is low." Vitamins D, A, and B-1 are very important to growth especially if "the dog belongs to one of the breads in which the bone development is great. Ulceration and skin disease are traceable to lack of vitamins...
Alcohol and Prohibition. More than a fifth of all U. S. mental patients are alcoholics. In 1920, the first bone-dry Prohibition year, the number of admissions to mental hospitals dropped from 85 per 100,000 of the population to an all-time low of 72. Prohibition did it, says Dr. Dayton. By 1921, when bootlegging had begun, admissions rose to 77; the following year they climbed to 82. Dr. Dayton, who firmly believes that liquor makes lunatics, accuses psychiatrists of neglecting this important problem...
Brandy flasks passed from hand to mouth in the bone-chilling rain. The hundreds of fresh pine benches were too wet to sit on, but drier to stand on than the flooded pavement. Franklin Roosevelt laughed as the rain soaked his second inaugural manuscript, said: ". . . The greatest change we have witnessed has been the change in the moral climate of America." But his voice rang as he spoke his grim vision of the present: "I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished...