Word: opened
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Adams House Town Hall group Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Upper Common Room. Introductory speeches by Raphael Demos, associate professor of Philosophy, Richard B. Schlatter, instructor of History, Overton H. Taylor, lecturer in Economics, and Russell A. Nixon, instructor of Economics are scheduled. An open discussion from the floor will follow...
...pious exercise. Hecklers and speakers alike were delegates to the ninth annual National Catholic Evidence Conference, which met last week at Manhattan's Hotel Commodore. In arguing over confession, extreme unction, miracles, indulgences, purgatory, the Pope, they were demonstrating tactics for open-air meetings from Boston Common to Los Angeles' Pershing Square...
Last week the American Journal of Digestive Diseases brought into the open a bitter dispute of long standing between physicians and surgeons. Ulcers of the stomach, most doctors believe, are caused by too much acid in the digestive juices. Too much acid corrodes the stomach lining at sensitive points, leaving a raw wound. But why some people have a constant gush of acid, instead of a gentle trickle at mealtime, is a mystery to doctors. Certain it is that tobacco and alcohol do a delicate stomach no good. Many authorities hold that ulcers are the fruits of temperament, for only...
...hundreds of years medicine men believed that arthritis was caused by watery "humors" which settled in the joints. The ancient Romans burned the flesh over the afflicted joints, kept the ulcers open to drain off the humors. Other doctors worked on the principle of "no movement, no pain." They carved stone foot casts, not unlike modern plaster casts, into which patients thrust their aching feet. Paul placed great faith in "dragon's blood," but of course, he remarked, it "is difficult to procure...
...tall, redheaded, reticent T. C. I. Chief Robert Gregg announced the 18-month expansion which will boost his pig-iron capacity more than 20% to over 2,000,000 tons. Steelman Gregg will add one blast furnace (boosting Alabama's active total to 191, renovate 18 standing open-hearth furnaces, build 70 coke ovens, install a 140-inch plate mill, modernize all mining operations...