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Universal are the laws of fashion. Truly fashionable urbanites will not be content to keep hats, gowns,, suits in the latest mode. As distinct and almost as mercurial are style changes in shoes, gloves, jewelry, corsets, furs, silverware, automobiles, china, glass, trunks, musical instruments, furniture, toilet goods, perfumes...
...science. When it is injected into rabbits it produces in their bodies the nodules peculiar as symptoms of tuberculosis, but of no other disease. Said R. J. Anderson of Yale: "This discovery that a nonliving substance may be the cause ot tubercular growth, opens up an entirely new mode of approach in the search for an immunizing agent. In the past there has been no way of proving whether the growth of the tubercle in tubercular organisms was the result of direct action of the living bacillus...
...change from home life to fraternity life is for most men and women their first attempt to adjust themselves to an entirely different mode of living. And it is the more versatile of the new students who most readily get into the swing of things. --The Daily Illini
...soon got on to the practical purposes of his visit. He reminded people that he was farm-raised in the days when farming was a mode of living, not an industry. He redescribed farming's transformation and its post-War predicament. He repeated his pledges: 1) for a Federal Farm Board; 2) a Farm Loan Fund; 3) a stabilized, autonomous, farm marketing system...
Silhouette. Let the cautious woman apply the following test. Dressed in a frock of an outworn mode, a pea dropped from her fork would roll to the table (or carpet) without interruption. But dressed in the 1928 silhouette, she might retrieve the pea in the ruffles at her neck, in a bow or a flounce on her skirt. Adopting the broken silhouette, dressmakers refer the dubious to modern architecture, pointing to jagged, jutting lines of skyscrapers...