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...patient absorbs plenty of Vitamin B, said Drs. William Skainline Middleton and Adolph Hutter of Madison, Wis. Eruptions of the soles and palms often are due to infected teeth, tonsils, ulcer or other disease of the digestive tract, observed Dr. George Clinton Andrews Jr. & associates of Manhattan. A normal adult has very nearly 1/20 of an ounce of sand in his lungs. Dr. William Duncan McNatty of Chicago calculated. A coal miner's lungs contain about 1/6 oz., a zinc miner's 2/5 oz., a stone cutter's 3/5 oz., a granite cutter's 1 1/10...
...College was disbanded, and because of lack of funds no new version of it has been instituted. Like the Athenian owl, Dr. Meiklejohn folded his wings, looked wise. Last week he found a new roost to fly to. In San Francisco next September he will head a new "Adult Center for Social Studies." No entrance requirements will be set, no credits will be given. Dr. Meiklejohn will help radicals, businessmen, teachers, artists, laborers, preachers and scientists in scrutinizing contemporary civilization and its problems. Presidents Sproul of California. Wilbur of Stanford and Reinhardt of Mills endorse the plan. But most notable...
...last week (in the American Journal of Cancer) that the hormone test for teratomata is 98% positive. It detects a testicular monstrosity within three weeks of the onset of the swelling. The younger the teratoma, that is, the more primitive the fetal elements, the stronger is the hormone reaction. "Adult" tumors give weak reactions because their contents are bits of fully formed body parts...
...much pith in the remark that Japan might also have been literal about Chinese treaties if an anarchic China had been two thousand miles from her frontiers, and if her interests were as small as Great Britain's much touted Persian oil wells. But it is clear that no adult judgment of Japan's conduct can be made until the charges that she bribed the revolting Chinese governments are either substantiated or dispelled. Granting, for the sake of argument, that treaties with an overturned and incomplete government are merely academic in the face of a vital threat to national safety...
...January 1931 he made headlines with the assertion that the 1,100 bank failures of 1930 were caused by a lack of "adult education for bankers." that the Depression was a "strange and stupid spectacle...