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Europeans traveling in America are apt to ejaculate at the degree with which this nation is woman-governed and they sometimes add, woman-ridden. In all chivalry, the American can ask such a European to name one country where' such conditions do not exist. The immense power which women have over what might be called the national pulse, bolstered by their influence in the education of the next generation, and culminated in some countries by the new power to vote, forces the defenseless male between a Devil of the emotions and a deep sea of domesticity. The only trouble with...
Boldly displayed without an accompanying article of any kind was a map of England and Wales?such a map as no living man could make of the U. S., for the necessary information does not exist. Entitled lugubriously WHERE THE SHADOW FALLS: Unemployment At A Glance, the map shows from official statistics of the Ramsay MacDonald Labor Government exactly the percentage of unemployment in each and every British county, not forgetting "Salop" the concise if nonsensical abbreviation for "Shropshire...
These are not frivolous objections. Very possibly they are unjustified, but the fact that they exist presents a formidable psychological obstacle at the outset of the experiment, one that requires tactful handling. N. Y. Herald-Tribune...
...adrenal cortex puzzles physiologists. It is an essential to life. Its destruction causes death in from 24 to 48 hours. Apparently it secretes a special hormone which has not yet been identified. If its hormone does not exist, some substance like a hormone profoundly affects the whole body. It has sharp effect on the sympathetic nervous system and a profound effect on the genital apparatus. Overgrowth of the cortex is associated with precocious sexual development. Such overgrowth accounts for those rare cases where an exuberant girl changes into a shy boy with boyish hair on face, limbs and body, slim...
...grated windows; there are three rebels left and only two bullets. Hope has long since gone. Even the shooting of the warden had been an act not so much of hope as of protest against a life in which such a steely, stifling enigma as the Death House could exist. Ultimately one of the survivors walks out to death by machine gun, leaving the others to divide the remaining cartridges...