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...stand these continual shocks. . . . The unions could help . . . but in great industrial centres like Detroit and Toledo large mass production employers seem to hate the A. F. of L. worse than the Communists. When depressions come, they throw their workers on the street. . . . If trade unions were allowed to function without the relentless opposition of large employers, they could tide their members over seasonal unemployment...
Heart "Brake." Long has the pericardium, a fibroserous, inelastic membrane which surrounds the heart, been a puzzle to physiologists. Its function has been discovered by George Crisler and Edward Jerald Van Liere of the University of West Virginia. The inelastic sac acts as a brake, keeps the heart, the muscular control of which, is not sufficient to prevent undue dilation, from going out of bounds, breaking...
...advice. Yet, the first few months of college mark only the beginning of the storm of suggestion. The maze of the tutorial system and the mysteries of the magic invoked by the two words, concentration and distribution, still remain for the initiate before the advisory fetish has fulfilled its function. Today, in the New Lecture Hall, the old ritual will take place, and the Freshman will be initiated into at least the mechanics of the present system...
...company to join the Gas system is New York Steam Corp., whose function is to furnish steam for heating and power purposes. The root of New York Steam Corp. was New York Steam Co.. founded in 1880. During the War, New York Steam Co. had fuel troubles, went bankrupt in 1921. Since its reorganization the corporation has been extremely successful. In 1922 its net earnings were only $615,000; for the year ending June 30, 1929 they came to over $2,700,000, up 21% from...
...vaudeville comedian named Bert Lahr whose eyes are close together and easily crossed, who emits apelike noises and resorts to other equally obvious antics. His most successful gag is a vulgar parody of a procedure common to all medical examinations. A great many people find him very funny. His function in the plot is to act as foil for a fat girl who wants to marry him. The fat girl, who looks as though she could barely waddle, does what fat girls must do to stay on the stage-springs a surprise, in this case a tap dance extremely agile...