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...arrangement has been concluded with the Aetna Life Insurance Company, which is handling the Senior class fund endowment insurance, offering the opportunity of paying the total of the premiums in a lump sum at the outset. This plan, which is designed to save the trouble of paying premiums throughout a period of 25 years, calls for a payment of about $130 for every $250 in the face value of the policy. When this policy matures in 1950, it will represent the original $130 with about four per cent interest. The payment of the premiums in a lump sum effects...
...veins. But injections are troublesome, expensive, often painful. Come Mendel, Wittgenstein, Wolffenstein, three wise men of Berlin, professors at the University there. They have made insulin into pills; not such pills as are wont to be taken by candlelight with a sob, a gulp of water and a lump of sugar. No, for insulin dissolves in the juices of the stomach and becomes virtueless. These pills melt in the mouth like very sugar, but, unlike sugar, they melt into the body direct, are absorbed through the pores of the tongue. The effect is reported to equal that of injections. Thus...
...Federal Building, with all the power of a court to swear witnesses and take testimony, these investigators proceeded to summon the chairmen and treasurers of the three leading parties. The Committee was resolved that "every line of inquiry" should be followed, that its reports should "not deal with lump totals, but with detailed contributions and expenditures...
...Cadillac is $20. By count on last Saturday night I discovered that 200 cars were parked on University property. Now if this rule is to be strictly enforced these 200 students will probably have to have their cars in garages. If they do, the expense taken in a lump sum will be very large. Assume that 100 of the cars are Fords. The owners of these cars will be force to pay $14 a month for nine months--a total of $12,600. The owners of the other 100 cars will have to pay approximately $18,000. In other words...
...established one of the first "neighborhood houses"-in Allen Street, Manhattan. Died. Dutch Louie, 26, famed yegg, gunman; in Cherry Hill, Manhattan. His shooting recalled that of his alleged brother, Charles ("Potatoes") Casazza, in the saloon of Louis Poggi, known as "Louis the Lump," and the killing of "Kid Twist" and his lieutenant by Poggi at Coney Island twelve years...