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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote Correspondent Leland Stowe of the Chicago Daily News last week after interviewing a batch of prisoners brought in by the unconquered Finns. Correspondent Stowe found them "helpless, tragic wretches. . . . The Russians wore Army overcoats of a cheap, part-wool mixture and uniforms of quilted cotton. . . . None of the men we saw had high boots, but they had ordinary shoes-and several of them, as a result, had feet so frozen they could hardly walk. . . . All said they were reservists, mostly of the class of 1925, and had been called up only three months ago. Most of these men were...
Denied a further extension of his four-month alien visitor's permit, rabbity British Earl Bertrand Arthur William Resell, famed libertarian logician, found he must leave the U. S. by year's end. Not anxious for U. S. citizenship, but wishing to qualify for a permanent chair of philosophy at the University of California (where he has been lecturing), Earl Russell will go to Ensenada, Mexico, try to persuade the U. S. consul there to admit him permanently...
...broken, but there were still some 18th-Century cracks which strained the broadcasting code ("Yes, indeed, the Sex is frail. But the first time a woman is frail, she should be somewhat nice methinks, for then or never is the time to make her Fortune.") U. S. radio listeners found its gangster Captain Macheath, his moll Polly Peacham, and its other ballad-singing jailbirds as fetching as a trim ankle, its famed tunes as neat as a whistle. Sample...
They performed a series of experiments on dogs, who had "burns of critical degree but not utterly hopeless." They found: 1) dogs which were given no fluids died in twelve hours; 2) dogs which received large quantities of water lived a little longer, but died, like the baby, in convulsions; 3) dogs which were given moderate amounts of salt and sugar solutions to maintain their "blood chemistry," and which received "repeated large transfusions of blood in addition . . . were able to survive the otherwise fatal shock." The doctors came to the conclusion that a stagnant circulation must be stimulated with extreme...
...source material from which the synthetic hormones have been prepared is derived from the lowly sarsaparilla root found in Mexico. It is called sarsasa-pogenin. (CAUTION: Please note that the source material is derived from the lowly sarsaparilla root. . . . The hormones themselves...