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Stepp of Jena commended U. S. Experimenters Hess and Steenbock for their experiments in stimulating the production of vitamins in vegetable oils by means of the ultraviolet rays (artificial sunshine) of mercury lamps. . . . Too much vitamin-potent food might injure patients.
Followed years of gore and glory, for Mohammed entertained no silly qualms about bloodshed and brigandage for pious ends. He never went in for miracles, but calculated a paradise that Arabs would gladly die for, abundant in food, wine, ease and "full-bosomed" houris. Ignorant in most things (he once...
Synthetic Italy. There was Prince Piero Ginori Conti of Italy, who described the taming of waterfalls and hot volcanic springs in the Apennines to produce the power to make the electricity that now supplies Italy with acetic acid without apples (vinegar); wood alcohol from coal instead of trees; camphor, ammonia...
Continuing his comments on last week's really Herculean effort to restore the lira to parity, Under Secretary Grandi declared on behalf of the Cabinet: "As the artificial inflation of industry is punctured there will be many collapses, accompanied no doubt by much suffering, but it is the only...
*"Artificial dentures" is a more precious term. The number of teeth was 29,412,243, enough for 919,132 full sets of 32 teeth. Each tooth brought 4½c, each mouthful $1.40.