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...from the space between the two cylinders. When the vacuum has been created, the liquid to be distilled flows down over the surface of the warm inner cylinder. As the liquid flows, molecules of vitamin A or D or other light substances pop off, jump the inter-cylinder gap, condense on the inner wall of the bigger cylinder. Condensed, they dribble down into a container, while the heavier fluid flowing down the inner cylinder runs off into a second pair of evacuated cylinders...
...While many efforts have been made to close the gap between receipts and expenditures, such efforts have not been completely successful. It seems that the time has about come-indeed, it has already arrived-when we should give careful consideration to that subject. . . . Insofar as I am informed, we have about exhausted the sources of taxation to which Congress is willing and able to resort...
...boys gathered on the half-mile pony track anext the Charles, and John Fugard of Evanston, Illinois, stepped out with "Butch". If was nip and tuck for the first half-mile, but Fritz Iwasko, the flash from Detroit, began to widen a considerable gap...
...large part of an ordinary doctor's practice. But an ordinary doctor does not know much more than his mother or Boy Scout leader taught him about such minor surgery. Medical schools pay little attention to the subject, medical journals less, medical conventions practically none at all. This gap in a doctor's education made the president of the American College of Surgeons, Dr. Eugene Hillhouse Pool of Manhattan, complain recently. Partly because of Dr. Pool's complaint, mainly because he has a fine, two-fingered feel for medical necessities, Editor Thurston Scott Welton of the American...
Miss Quis (by Ward Morehouse; Vinton Freedley, producer). Liz Quis (Peggy Wood) is a worn spinster who does housework for most of Fancy Gap's prominent townsfolk, including fiery old Colonel Selby, veteran Indian fighter. The Colonel has a great love for Fancy Gap, hates the other leading citizens' pettiness and rapacity, which he believes to be handicapping the progress of his town. When he dies, knowing that Miss Quis shares his feelings, he leaves her his mansion and his fortune, hoping she will be able to get rid of the undesirables. Armed with a sheaf of damaging...