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Critics paused before a well constructed, firmly drawn portrait by the club's treasurer, grey-haired, dapper Stanley Adams Sweet. Treasurer Sweet in private life is president of Sweet-Orr & Co. (overalls), generally recognized as the first company to market a high grade, tailored overall. Treasurer Sweet has no false ideas of his own prowess as a painter, but insists that his membership in the club has been invaluable in showing him the technical problems that great masters have had to overcome...
...sight, visceral activity, body position, temperature and pain pause a jiffy on their way to the thinking part of the brain. When one has a general feeling of discomfort, his tweenbrain is trying to tell his main brain an incoherent story. Vague emotions reflect the tweenbrain's mentally low-grade activities. Stomach "nervousness" must also have some relation to the diencephalon, for it to some extent controls digestion and other vegetative processes...
...Players. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, as all baseball fans well know, was once a high-grade pitcher. Many managers last week considered new places for old players. Most remarkable is the case of Mark Koenig, last year shortstop for the Detroit Tigers. This year he will probably be a pitcher. John Watwood, Chicago White Sox left fielder, may shift to first base. Lindstrom, the Giants' third baseman will try the outfield. Rogers Hornsby, new manager of the Chicago Cubs, may transfer from second base to first, moved famed Hack Wilson from centre field to right...
Temperature. The chart of the U. S. oil giant's condition is a price chart. In California last week came the third drastic price-cut in three weeks. High-grade California oil sells in Los Angeles now for 35? a barrel against $1.48 at the start of the year. Mid-Continent oil is selling at 53? against 81? at the first of the year. Last week gasoline stocks reached a new high for the year of 47,444,000 bbl. against 42,818.000 bbl. Jan. 1 and 55,239,000 bbl. a year ago. Refineries were operating...
...this analysis salaries were found to grade up or down accordingly as the graduate had received a low pass, a plain pass, a high pass, or distinction. In the case of men a considerable number of years out of the school, those who had graduated with distinction have for the most part been receiving salaries double the ones obtained by former students who received a low pass on graduation...