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Warm blooded animals accommodate themselves efficiently to changes in temperature. They are continually manufacturing heat themselves and getting rid of it. Thus they maintain normal temperatures. The smaller the animal the higher is likely to be its body temperature. Temperature of a mouse is 105.8°, rabbit 102.0°, dog 100.0° to 102.0°, man 98.6°, horse 96.8° to 98.6°. Children are about one degree warmer than adults...
...court in economics." He recalled the fact that as an Associate Justice Mr. Hughes in 1914 had written the famed Shreveport decision which Senator Glass claimed destroyed the last vestige of State control of freight rates.* North Dakota's Senator Nye chimed in: "The sooner citizens get rid of this idea that a judge is more honorable than a legislator, the clearer will become our perception of the evils of judicial usurpation...
...public lavatory just opposite a café. When the proprietor objected to this juxtaposition, M. Castel-Benac charged him a fat sum for haulage, then moved his lavatory down the street and established it opposite another café. But M. Castel-Benac made one tactical mistake. Having determined to rid his office of the gibbering and useless M. Topaze, he procured a farewell gift for that pedagog by gentle blackmail. It was the particular gleam which M. Topaze had long been following-a degree of Doctor of Moral Philosophy. And when he received it, the schoolmaster was transmogrified. A year...
...rid the Chicago Tribune and anti-Italian Austrians of fears that an Austro-Italian alliance is brewing, Chancellor Schober, on his way back to Vienna, crossed the tip of Jugoslavia and was received at Ratkersburg by a pompous representative of Dictator-King Alexander, whose people are avowedly the bitterest enemies of Italians...
Many A Slip. One of the most effective wiles employed by theatrical ladies is the bogus pregnancy. The ingenue of It's A Wise Child (TIME, Aug. 19) uses it to rid herself of a repulsive fiance. The heroine of Many A Slip adopts it, upon the advice of her mother, to provoke just the opposite effect?a proposal of marriage from a cynical and recalcitrant swain. Once she gets him, she learns that babies do not always come with husbands and is highly embarrassed by the arrival of toy trains, mechanical bunnies, other anticipatory gewgaws. And when her husband...