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...Chestnut Game...
Under the "Unholy Holy Land" caption, TIME, May 13, reports an article written by Dr. Charles Clayton Morrison, editor of The Christian Century. At first blush it is mildly surprising to find a cultured churchman indulging in the old chestnut game of dragging supposed Catholic inconsistencies from the fires of bigotry. In his article, he claims that Greek and Roman priests exercised more despicable charlatanry than the Palestinian dragomen, that a Franciscan monk pointed out in "Mary's house" the actual pillar at which the Virgin stood on the day of the Annunciation...
Renouf Russell, of Chestnut Hill has been named head usher for the Freshman Jubilee on Friday evening, John H. Gardiner, chairman of the committee announced yesterday...
...cause of this bulging was not in the individual's thyroid itself, although the thyroid was overworking as hard as any goitrous thyroid. By systematically shuffling the hormones of many creatures, he found that the seat of Graves's Disease is in the pituitary gland, a chestnut-sized nugget lying midway between the temples. Through its many hormones the pituitary in one way or another manages the activities of practically all the other ductless glands. One of the pituitary's hormones, Professor Loeb found, specifically excites the thyroid and causes the eyes of a victim of Graves...
...eighth fence. They saw a tragedy when Trouble Maker, record-holder for the course, one of the best steeplechasers in the U. S. for the last five years, stumbled at the 17th fence and broke his neck. Stuart S. Janney Jr. on Mrs. W. Austin Wadsworth's big, chestnut 12-year-old, Hotspur II, was leading when Trouble Maker went down. Captain Kettle, ridden by Charles R. White, trying for his third Maryland Hunt Cup victory in a row, came up fast as the field went over the last two jumps. On the home stretch, down a lane between...