Word: berkeley
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Fertility. Lettuce, cotton seed and whole wheat contain comparatively large quantities of Vitamin E, according to its discoverer, Dr. Herbert McLean Evans of Berkeley, Calif. For lack of Vitamin E otherwise normal female animals, and probably women, cannot have babies. But they regain their fertility immediately after resuming proper meals. Dr. Evans & associates have just proved that this vitamin is a rare alcohol, which they now hope to make artificially...
Artificial Radium. By means of a powerful electromagnet Professor Ernest Orlando Lawrence of Berkeley can in ten hours' operating time instill as much radiant energy into a speck of common table salt as $2,500 worth of natural radium contains. The chief difference is that whereas natural radium, a deadly poison, will retain its radioactivity for thousands of years, radioactive table salt will lose all its potency within a few hours. During the period of its radioactivity, however, such table salt may do as much medical good as natural radium, and probably without harmful effects...
...know something of what led up to it, to understand, for instance, exactly why two young women from California who, if they had wanted to see which was the better tennis player, could have done so any afternoon on the courts of the club they both belong to at Berkeley, were now in Wimbledon's centre court doing that and considerably more...
...dress, exhibited her paintings in London, won the Wimbledon title for the third time, married Frederick S. Moody Jr. So good was she that, for the sake of excitement, all tennis experts could do was look for her closest rival. They found one near at hand: Helen Jacobs, of Berkeley. Three years younger than Mrs. Moody, Miss Jacobs was rudely and obviously labeled "Helen II." thus starting the bitterest rivalry in the history of women's sport...
...staff of the American Anthropologist from 1912 to 1933, he served as its editor for nine years, has been professor of anthropology at the University of California since 1925. Of his twelve published volumes, five deal with the Crow Indians. Married two years ago, he now lives in Berkeley, Calif...