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...offer for sale a set of 20 one-reel sound pictures produced in the Physical Sciences Department at Chicago. The pictures will show detailed scientific experiments, synchronized with lectures by Chicago professors. Subjects include: the flow of protoplasm in plant & animal life, the excavations of Nineveh and Megiddo, the heartbeat of a dog. Price for the set will be $1,400 including projector. The university will receive no profit beyond publicity. Not intended to take the place of professors or to reduce teaching time, the films are planned as addenda to regular instruction in institutions of limited facilities. Production...
Seymour Parker Gilbert. Agent General of the Reparations Commission in Germany, he has been, in effect, the house physician for European money matters. Collecting from Germany, disbursing to the Allies, he has watched Germany's financial temperature and heartbeat for three years, advising here, criticising there, until he considered his patient ready to enter another consultation for new treatments. His chief reward for his work will be more work. He is to be adopted by the House of Morgan...
...elixir in the germinal glands, which he now claims have a secretive alliance with the pituitary gland. That small, oval, reddish-gray body, appended to the brain, is made up of two separately active lobes. The rear one exudes a valuable drug, which has been ingeniously injected to speed heartbeat, to increase blood pressure, or to make muscles contract. It is used in cases of surgical shock, in obstetrics, after abdominal surgery...
...down. In gold boots and scarlet gown, she glided through an adagio with her big partner, Vladimiroff, to music by Glazunov. Again with Vladimiroff, she did her famed Caucasian Dances, a slinky lady then, wild and jimp with shiny eyes, while a little drum tapped like a drunken heartbeat. In a dance called the "Polka Vendredi," with the flavor of a dirty joke of the '70's, she became the sort of person that modern Chief Justices and aging college presidents were warned against in their salad days-a saucy, swaggering, heliotroped trollop. Young blades regarding her shivered...