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...also lights up the bacteria which often make ponds and seawater phosphorescent. Working with flaskfuls of luminous bacteria, the researchers found that alcohol and anesthetics, when added in small amounts to the bacterial solutions, dimmed their luminescence. Greater amounts extinguished the glow altogether. (Conclusions: narcotics numb consciousness by affecting enzyme reactions, not-as hitherto suspected-by acting as fat solvents; human consciousness, which these drugs affect, is at least partly a chemical process sustained by enzymes.) The sulfa drugs acted like one group of narcotics on the enzyme, putting activities to sleep. (Conclusion: the sulfa drugs may perform their germicidal...
...brought stunningly home last week. OPM ruled: no more golf, tennis, squash, hand-balls. Stricken sportsmen, brooding on the last bounce of the last ball, swamped stores (one sports shop sold 2,000 dozen golf balls by 11 a.m.). Other gamesters planned to take up games priorities could never affect: croquet, parchesi...
...necessity of a navy, but as to the accomplishment of enterprises beyond its sphere. Neither now nor in the future will international conflicts be determined by naval engagements. In some instances naval victories may produce conditions that will tend to hasten the conclusion of a war, but ... to affect, to cripple or destroy a nation in wartime can only be done by injuring to that degree its power of government, its resources and its ability to defend itself against the enforcement of hostile demands." In short, to defeat the U.S., Japan would have to invade it. That he expected Japan...
...sugar) somewhat subdued even sugar-shameless Joe O'Mahoney. Nonetheless, he took his shellacking in character. Three days after Pearl Harbor he was still telling the Senate Committee that some freeze-out of Cuba was essential to domestic sugar growers and that it would not affect U.S. sugar supplies till after the war anyway, because the lid is off for the duration...
George Fajimoto '42, and American citizen of Japanese descent, "doesn't see how the situation can affect me at all. I am an American like the rest of us, involved...