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...said that "I should think the Congress might modify the act as even this short time has shown that it is not effective." He went on to point out that "our position in the world is such that whatever we do, or even if we do nothing, it will affect a foreign war" and there can be no true neutrality...
...women, he was frank about the uses of his toads. When away from their native habitat they will not lay eggs naturally. However, if they receive a hypodermic injection of urine from a pregnant woman they invariably produce a few eggs. Non-gravid or male urine fails to affect them. "Therefore," smiled Dr. Matsner, "at 16? apiece they are the cheapest, most reliable indicator of pregnancy which we have- cheaper than rabbits or guinea pigs, which must be killed before they reveal the uncertain woman's condition: more reliable than bitterlings, who project their ovipositors in the presence...
...inhibits the production of ova, without which no woman can conceive. In this respect it differs from spermatoxin, an extract of spermatozoa, which renders a woman transiently infertile when injected into her arm like a vaccine. As long as her blood is stimulated by spermatoxin no spermatozoa can affect her and she cannot have babies. Not all women will endure injections of spermatoxin, because it may render them allergic and put them in a class with victims of hives...
...safe came the sacrosanct loose-leaf relic. Mr. Stringfellow flipped through the finger-marked pages, read an 11-year-old question: "If there is any nickel in iron, does it adversely affect the life of the cell...
...probable that the finding will affect the traditional method of eclipse observations, leading astronomers to make more use of airplanes to carry their instruments up into the substratosphere...