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...world but was not of it. He kept his methods to himself; when plain people noticed him at all they suspected him; few people had a chance to discover his dignity, and when discovered it was usually misinterpreted. Much has happened in the last few years to alter this national condition...
...nerve-blocking procedure in which alcohol, acetone and chloroform are used in addition to cobra and other venoms, although serving to alter transmission of impulses from and to the diseased muscles or painful areas and that way accomplishing the desired recovery of the part affected, has no paralyzing effect whatsoever either upon the nerves, muscles or parts. The treatment as applied serves to heal the diseased nerves and the patient is confined to the hospital bed only for a few hours...
...correct guesses recorded by Rhine. A person trying to convey telepathically one of the five symbols on the ESP cards to another person's mind might imagine that he was shouting the symbol at the top of his lungs, and so might unconsciously move his lips or alter his breathing. These slight sounds might furnish valuable cues to a person with acute hearing, or to a half-hypnotized person whose normal hearing was sharpened. Dr. Kennedy used blindfolded subjects who were not told the purpose of his experiment. Near the "sender" but unknown to him was installed...
...long as man has the passion to alter the perfectly balanced conditions of life which nature, through countless ages, has developed," Fernald warned, "the rare and retiring plant or animal has no more chance of survival than has the human fugitive aristocrat in the dictator-ruled countries which are so upsetting to lovers of human liberty...
...arms shipments to the Spanish Government. Last week, after conferring with Franklin Roosevelt, Mr. Hull sent the Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Key Pittman his reply. This was a terse note to the effect that having adopted a policy of "strict noninterference" the U. S. could not now consistently alter it; and that "even if the legislation applied to both parties, its enactment would still subject us to unnecessary risks we have so far avoided." Furthermore, wrote Secretary Hull, if Congress wanted to revise the Neutrality Act, it should not do so "piecemeal, in relation to a particular situation...