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...Supreme Court upheld the first decision, reversed the second, thus last week took from the cinemagnates the back bone of their industry...
When proud men disagree, the best way to get them to resume relations is to unite them in a common cause which each can support without loss of dignity. Since 1927 there has been no football match between the U. S. Naval Academy and the U. S. Military Academy. Bone of contention was Navy's insistence upon the three-year rule (observed at all U. S. colleges) which requires that each player have no more than three years' college varsity football experience. Army's team has long had members who were previously outstanding on college teams. Last...
...years ago. After 17 years of quiet research in his laboratory at Munich, he announced that he had succeeded in synthesizing hematin, the red iron core which carries oxygen into the blood (TIME, Jan. 7, 1929). He used pyrrol, a constituent of the common cure-all known as bone oil, subjected the colorless liquid to a complicated chemical treatment to obtain his results. The synthetic product he called hematine. Or ganic chemists are now experimenting with the substance, using it upon animals to de termine how doctors may employ it to cure human disease. Sir Chandrasekhara Ven kata Raman discovered...
...only outstanding news to give color to a rather drab day was the announcement that Devens, brilliant back who broke a bone in his leg in the Dartmouth game, will be on the field in togs this afternoon to practice with the team, and that he may possibly be available for relief work for short periods during the Yale contest...
...Spain. Jose Viloria, Madrid streetcar conductor, on a Sunday jaunt to suburban Moncloa, kicked about in a dirt pile on the site of a new university, found a bone, an old dirty pot. When he showed the pot and bone to university authorities, they enthusiastically called a meeting of the board of directors, engaged Professor Hugo Obermaier, archeologist of Central University, to dig more pots. On the streetcar conductor's Sunday picnic site were found coins, wooden kitchen utensils, old pottery, stone knives, a granite grinding mill, skeletons of bulls, goats, birds. Professor Obermaier reported the discoveries...