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...campaigned for Roosevelt in 1932, but by 1936 he could no longer contain his bitterness. He invented the term "alphabet soup" to describe the plethora of New Deal agencies, spoke for Alf Landon, and warned the U.S. sarcastically that "You can't lick Santa Claus." Then he quit politics. His last years were quiet but busy. He became Honorary Curator of the Bronx Zoo, president of the long-empty Empire State Building, a director of a half-dozen corporations. He was one of the nation's great Roman Catholic laymen, and in 1937 he visited the Vatican...
...amputation are increased threefold. In fact, said Dr. Otho C. Hudson of Hempstead, L.I., in last fortnight's New York State Journal of Medicine, human bites anywhere on the body are much more dangerous than animal bites (except, of course, those of rabid dogs). Reason: human mouths contain very destructive bacteria...
Eagles will have to rely solely upon under-age civilians and men honorably discharged from the service for their eleven this season. Actually, the visitor's starting lineup will contain eight freshmen, in contrast to the two who are listed for the Crimson...
Past Experience. The Philippines alone contain 7,083 islands-many garrisoned by Japs. At least some of these must be taken before U.S. troops reach either China or the main islands of Japan. Simple arithmetic suggests that U.S. casualties in the Pacific may exceed U.S. losses in Europe. For the great mass of Japan's soldiers have yet to be met, and the Japs have proved far more fanatical than the Germans-whose surrender rate in France has been about eight times their death rate...
...drawers, required 200 attendants. This increase was typical of the larger U.S. university libraries, which for more than a century have roughly doubled the number of their volumes every 16 years. If Yale's collection continues to multiply at this pace, within another century it will contain 200,000,000 volumes, requiring 6,000 miles of shelves, eight acres of catalogue files. 6.000 cataloguers...