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Freud's self-analysis rid him of most .neurotic cares; this possibly is true, but please don't overlook those long, wonderful summer vacations, usually without his wife...
...companies with suspicion but done little to curb their power. Last week the Senate and the House passed and sent to President Eisenhower a bill that would apply stringent curbs. Directed at the 39 U.S. companies that control two or more banks apiece, the bill would make them get rid of all their nonbanking interests, and would forbid buying new banking properties without approval of the Federal Reserve Board. Primary purpose of the bill is to protect independent banks from the interstate branch-banking competition they cannot match...
...failure, in which the heart periodically or progressively fails to meet the body's demands for blood and dangerously overworks. It causes "dropsy"-the body's retention of salt and water. One standard way to get rid of excess brine has been to inject a mercurial diuretic. Five research reports at Atlantic City meetings indicated that a mercurial drug to be taken regularly by mouth, chlormerodrin (Neo-hydrin), is both effective and safe for long-term...
...student could be checked by seeing how many problems he had to answer in order to get each one correct twice. In college a talented student in language coming in on his own time could presumably come in often early in the term, work quickly, and thereby get rid of his requirement...
...itinerant olive-picker, chicken thief, and loud-mouthed braggart who was first a Fascist, later a Communist. Always roaring at his wife and children, he once made them dig a long family grave in the backyard so that "it will be ready when I want to get rid...