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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another discovery was a sort of dummy Vitamin A, having a typical vitamin structure but no biological activity. This was labeled "Spurious A." Distilled Vitamin A esters are entirely free of this masquerader. They are also, said Dr. Hickman. "particularly stable to heat or oxidation. They are recommended especially for incorporation into fats and other foods, into chocolate, and into capsules for medicinal use. Distilled A capsules do not cause the unpleasant repeating or aftertaste associated with crude fish oils...
...poets make fewer excuses for themselves, and with good reason. Of course the better sort of poetry has a timeless quality, and the passing of years does not invariably make a better poet of a promising beginner. What lyric of Moody's, for example, is better than the song...
Once a year the bronzed brick building known to Manhattanites as the Metropolitan Opera House has its one big social night, the opening of the Opera Season. The occasion is a sort of public festival for those who love music and for those who like to see and be part of the show. So last week the Metropolitan filled again with bulging dowagers and stuffed shirts, music lovers, some in white ties, others in frayed collars, stridulous debutantes with glassy-eyed escorts, and a great dun horde which prides itself on loving music more than show but nonetheless selects...
...evidence, except Plutarch's incomplete account, was only frenzied, made-in-Rome propaganda. His "new" evidence was dug out of a "psychological" investigation. And Author Ludwig does succeed in presenting a Cleopatra who, as Queen of Egypt, Cyprus and Syria, deserves something better than her reputation as a sort of Oriental Mae West...
...work in companies or factories in the summer, which work may aid him in his later decisions. Then in his Senior year when he interviews various employers, he will not only have this past experience as recommendation, but will have made up his mind more definitely as to what sort of employment interests him the most. The man who gives the impression of knowing his own mind is apt to make the best impression on the person who interviews him, and the importance of this first impression can not be over estimated...