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...then that the Aga Khan, the Duke of Westminster and others placed their lien, now canceled, on the formula of manufacture. Henry Spahlinger thus had money to live on and to prosecute his research. Heart of the Spahlinger bacteriological technique is his theory that germs must be bred in cultures which duplicate to fine detail the living conditions they find in their natural hosts. Thus the tubercle bacillus which attacks cows needs a different culture environment from the tubercle bacillus which attacks human beings, and both need different cultures from the bacillus which causes diphtheria. This philosophy has been...
...Washington and considers it his principal duty to see that others do so also. When Congress tried to cut down the Commission's appropriation from $477,000 to $200,000, he took the floor to protest. Preoccupation with the father of the country which his own father adopted has bred in Sol Bloom a trace of Washington's fixity of purpose, his confidence in an ideal. With Washingtonian arrogance, though without Virginian hauteur, he wrote to a professor whom Mrs. Bloom had heard to say that Washington was not a great general: "Maybe he wasn't but England sent...
...cooked, then the egg-laying power of the female would be curtailed, and we shall have a great diminution in the mosquito population, provided the above reasoning is in accordance with fact and provided devices are developed to produce a three-phase 60-cycle hum where mosquitoes are bred and spread about, with means for destroying the mosquitoes which are so attracted. They may be burned, or drowned, or shocked, or cooked...
...wish to offend. But last week he sent them an ultimatum. A pack of dogs was prowling nightly through the zoo grounds, frightening the animals. One night they had killed a deer. Superintendent Hill had seen two police dogs, two bird dogs, one collie. All looked like nice, well bred dogs. He fired blank cartridges to frighten them away, but they returned. Unless Capitol Hill residents chained their dogs, said Superintendent Hill, "it may be necessary to use real cartridges...
Composer Wagner, had he been there, might have wondered why his directions for moving scenery in the Transformation Scene were ignored and the Transformation music played before a closed curtain. Director Herbert Witherspoon could have told him: to cinema-bred patrons, Director Witherspoon thought, Herr Wagner's elaborate device to indicate motion would have appeared quite "childish...