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...sleep the next, and the only thing that will break the vicious circle is a sedative drug. . . . Morphine is a good pain reliever, but a poor sleep maker. . . . The newer synthetics [drugs] have no relation to morphine; they have none of that kick that makes the taker wish to repeat the experience. . . ."?Walter C. Alvarez of Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn...
...Blue weight tossers, are both possible scorers in the shot put. Lamberg who is engaged in his first year of intercollegiate competition this spring, got the 16 pound ball out over 47 feet in the Cornell meet two weeks ago which should be good enough if he can repeat the effort this week for at least a third or fourth. Wright in the hammer throw, with a record of 161 feet to his credit, and Kanrich in the discus are other prominent Penn contenders in the weight events. In Baxter, Penn has a high jumper who has been over...
...Commons did not repeat last week its orgy of personal revilement of a fortnight ago (TIME, May 16). Instead steady filibustering by Laborites was pursued to the extent of offering some 350 destructive amendments. As a result, only seven words of the first clause of the measure passed second reading, and the Government announced that it would invoke cloture* something which has not been done in the British House of Commons since 1921 (during the latter period of Mr. Lloyd George's Premiership...
...when the Taggart man was the late Thomas R. Marshall. In 1920, Mr. Marshall failed to repeat, but in 1924 it looked much as though Boss Taggart had engineered successfully? until the late Senator Samuel M. Ralston (a perfunctory Taggart man that year) withdrew his name...
According to an affidavit of Robert C. Benchley, dramatic editor of Life, Judge Thayer said all these things to Mr. Loring Goes, of the Goes Wrench Co., Worcester, Mass., at the Worcester Golf Club. Mr. Goes, said Mr. Benchley, repeated Judge Thayer's remarks to him (Benchley). But Mr. Goes last week "flatly denied" the truth of Mr. Benchley's affidavit; recalled no conversation in which Judge Thayer flayed Messrs. Sacco and Vanzetti; said: "I have known Judge Thayer since 1908. I have never heard him use language that he could not repeat in mixed company...