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Viewing the Roosevelt landslide as representing in part the cession of "proletariat" votes to combat an envisioned close race with the forces of "Fascism" latent in Landon support, the John Reed Society last night concluded a meeting in Phillips Brooks House to interpret the results of the election...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reed Society Meets | 11/6/1936 | See Source »

...itself in the U. S., and its equipment is standard in the civil and military services of no less than 21 for eign lands. Eastman Kodak is quite content to supply film. One growing use for film is in Fairchild's machine-gun camera, an instrument for training combat pilots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fairchild Fission | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

Unquestionably the recent ruling will go a long way to combat the traditional amaze in which the first year man finds himself when faced with the problem of choosing a House. Leverett, Lowell, Kirkland, Winthrop, Dunster, Adams, Eliot--each has an appeal of its own and it is fit that each should have a chance to put its best foot forward while entertaining Freshmen guests. The move means an even greater complication in the labyrinthine account-system of Lehman Hall and the University has shown highly commendable goodwill in making the sacrifice for the benefit of Man and House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WE ACCEPT WITH PLEASURE | 10/20/1936 | See Source »

...this prattle about professional ethics, and with the A.M.A. in its sanctimonious stand as the sole arbiter of human health; I am vaguely reminded of one Louis Pasteur, chemist, and of how the medical confession, in a united front, battled his method of inoculation with virus to combat and cure hydrophobia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: A. M. A. Attitude | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...such physical agents, tried their hands at others. As a result a new specialty of physical medicine gradually developed. Called physical therapists, such doctors treat disease by heat, massage, baths, exercise, rest, work, radiation and electricity. The specialty is still not sharply defined. On one hand physical therapists must combat the tendency of other doctors to treat them as if they were simply operators of medical machines. On the other hand physical therapists must combat the bumptiousness of their technicians who actually operate the machines and call themselves physiotherapists. This confusion is gradually resolving itself. Technicians distinguish themselves as members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Physical Therapists | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

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