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...diseased, however, the picture is different. Dr. Elias Lincoln Stern of Columbia believes that many sick people who take in plenty of Bt with their food are unable to utilize it because an alkaline condition of the blood or digestive tract neutralizes it. In such cases the hungry nerves snap up the vitamin, if any reaches them, like a hungry man wolfing a plate of ham and eggs. To sidestep possible alkalinity in the body, Dr. Stern administers the vitamin directly to the spine...
...Light Parade. To the uninitiated, hockey, the fastest game in the world, looks like a haphazard melee in which someone by luck occasionally pokes a puck into a net. But professional hockey players, who are required to make snap decisions while speeding 30 ft. a second, have well-timed plays ready for almost every circumstance that arises, seldom make goals save by effective teamwork. Baseball had its famed Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance combination, but every big-league hockey team has a forward line (left wing, centre and right wing) that functions with the precision of baseball's great...
...license plates of a speeder because of headlight glare, fog, murk or because the lamp supposed to illuminate the license plate is extinguished. But such conditions would not affect infrared radiation. Last week Commissioner Foote's plan was to install in patrol cars infrared cameras which would snap a picture of the license plate of a car ahead under the worst conditions. By means of a mirror arrangement the patrol car's speedometer will be included in the picture, thus giving a record of the speeder's speed...
...which would be difficult to substantiate and even more difficult to correct if proven true. At Harvard, as in most universities, required courses have been cut to a minimum, and the only ones now exacted are those held essential to a student's understanding of his field. "Snap courses," which indolent students take to fulfill requirements, are also becoming extinct, so much so that Comparative Literature 35 has long been renowned as the exception proving the rule...
...managers too. They had the privilege of wrapping the Bruins in blankets when they came off the ice. When a certain manager had failed to encircle a Bruin after the fifth attempt, the Bruin was heard to say, "You can learn in four easy lessons." It sounds like a snap course...