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Declared Bernard Edward Sunny, Board Chairman of Illinois' Bell Telephone Co., to the graduating class of Armour Institute of Technology at Chicago: "It's far better for a young man starting out in the world to have an exaggerated ego than an inferiority complex...
William Morton Wheeler: Eminent as zoologist and Dean of the Bussey Institute. Profound student of the social life of insects, who has shown that they also can maintain complex communities without the use of reason...
Ergot is a rust on the heads of rye. Ergot extract is widely used in obstetrics, to cause contraction of the uterus and control uterine bleeding. The physiological action of the extract is not precise, a fault of many drugs of vegetable origin. Their composition is complex and variable. Hence physicians lately have been adopting more controllable products. In obstetrics, pituitary solutions refined from the pituitary glands >of animals are supplanting ergot. But great quantities of fluid extract of ergot are still used. The raw material reaches the U. S. from Russia (and Poland) and Spain (and Portugal...
...announcement ... is the crowning example of the chronic inferiority complex from which the book business in this country seems always to have suffered. I regard the decision of these publishers ... as shortsighted, unwise, and likely, if it has any effect whatsoever, to have a very disturbing effect indeed on the industry as a whole...
...with ironmasters in their own field, yet last week the Bank of England, for generations "The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street," prepared to take control of a large part of England's iron and steel industry. Bank Governor Montagu Collet Norman, famed for his keen maneuvers on the complex field of international exchange, prepared for the new role of Steel...