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...main question was the future direction of the Rockefeller Institute's research program. Under Pathologist Flexner its chief emphasis has been on what causes disease (pathology). Under Physiologist Gasser it appeared likely that the spotlight would shift to how the body works (physiology). Mr. Rockefeller led off the interview with: ''I am wondering why we started with an expert in pathology, and now we have one in physiology...
With this one innovation the starting lineup seems to be fairly definitely stabilized, despite the warnings that Dick Harlow reserves the right to shift any one or every one right up to the time the whistle blows...
With Moseley and Ziggy resting, the first-team backfield was a nondescript aggregation, quartered by George Hedblom in the bucking back position. Only one shift of importance was made when George Roberts, former Milton Academy quarterback, was boosted from the Jayvee squad to signal caller on the Varsity B team...
...exciting exhibition of forensic footwork to 500 conferees of the 1935 Mobilization for Human Needs. Two months ago national charitarians had cried "Foul!" when, discussing the tax bill with newshawks, the Champion had scorned corporation gifts to charity as a crass method of buying public goodwill. With an artful shift, the Champion now declared that such donations "must come from all those whose developments have accentuated the congestion and the problems of community life...
...Plan. ¶"Stakhanovism" was added to the Soviet vocabulary as Dictator Stalin's big-nosed Commissar of Heavy Industry Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze made national heroes of one Comrade Stakhanov, 22, and five other young Donetz Basin coal miners. Accustomed to getting out five tons of coal in each six-hour shift with a Soviet automatic cutting machine, Stakhanov worked out with his proppers and loaders a teamwork system which increased production to 310 tons per six-hour shift...