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Diluted 6 Boiled Brains, Brain cells contain protein of about the consistency of uncooked egg white. Alcohol, coffee, cocaine and anesthetics coagulate those brain proteins, as boiling hardens eggs. Bromides and thiocyanates thin out the proteins. In certain types of insanity (the manias) the brain apparently becomes permanently boiled. In other types (catatonia) the brain is diluted. Using drugs which give the opposite effect helps the various insane types, and sometimes cures. Lack of oxygen lets the brain get soft. Hence, said Wilder Dwight Bancroft (Cornell) who with his colleague G. Holmes Richter made these observations: "Aviators may become incapacitated...
Whale fat is not used in the U. S. as a base for margarine. But Scandinavian and German margarines contain it. Hydrogenated, snowy white, in the U. S. it goes into Procter & Gamble's "Chipso" and "P & G" naphtha soap. Into New York Harbor last fortnight steamed the Sir James Clark Ross with oil from 1,444 whales for Procter & Gamble...
...Animals" muscles and livers contain an animal starch which breaks down also into plucosc. The glucose supplies energy for work...
...their activity during each working half-hour of the two-week period, and are willing to amplify their views in personal interviews with undergraduates. Unsigned, these records specify such matters as salary, congeniality of surroundings, amount of "pull" needed to enter upon the given career, and in some cases contain extensive comments on each day's activities. The files, Putnam states, may be consulted by undergraduates at any time...
...Foch had heard (as who has not?) that Papa Joffre's soon-to-be-published memoirs contain scorching paragraphs about her husband, the Generalissimo. Calling upon Widow Joffre, Widow Foch begged: "Do let some impartial person read your husband's memoirs before they are published! Surely it would be best for France-best for patriotic reasons-that some passages be removed. Is there not glory enough for both our husbands as things...