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...that our decimal coinage system has over the English system of pounds, shillings and pence. 2) The metric standards are used in every country in the world except the British Commonwealth and the U. S., are already universally used in science and in many industries (radio, etc.) which have grown up in recent years...
...infancy of the Age of Advertising was a day of great phrases. Lately advertisers and their copywriters have grown more subtle and sophisticated. About two years ago the Procter and Gamble Co. introduced, in the white-space areas of their Ivory Soap displays, the piquant ménage of a family called Jollyco, whose members soon became as well known and beloved as the great funny folk?the Gumps, the Katzenjammers, Barney Google and that young patriarch of the comic sheets, Little Nemo...
Cancer causes one-tenth of all deaths among grown-ups in the U. S. Yearly from 100,000 to 125,000 people die here from this dis ease. It presents itself in four main ways: 1) epithelial, in which there is no rodlike framework; 2) scirrhous or hard, in which the framework predominates and the tumor is hard and of slow growth; 3) encephaloid or soft, in which the cellular element predominates and the tumor is soft, grows rapidly and often ulcerates; and 4) colloid, in which the cancerous structure becomes gelatinous. The last three are also called carcinoma. There...
...Frank Wittington Creighton had grown so famed for his personality and his clean-cut rectorship of the Protestant Episcopal church of St. Ann's in Brooklyn that last October the General Convention of his Church (the Convention that deposed, in absentia, Bishop William Montgomery Brown for his heresies) elected him bishop, and last week, as he knelt before his own altar, seven bishops laid hands on him, consecrated him the 150th living bishop of that Church. At the end of the month he will leave with his family for his new duties as Protestant Episcopal Missionary Bishop of Mexico, with...
...sciences and the Engineering Schools, the entire College now comes under the tutorial plan. During past years the number of students concentrating in mathematical subjects has been sufficiently small to allow for a considerable degree of individual contact between the student and the instructor, but recently the department has grown to such an extent that the same amount of personal contact has not been possible. The plan will go into full effect with respect only to the present Freshman class next fall, and one class will be added during each of the two ensuing years, until all those concentrating...