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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant has allocated $5000 from University funds to fight the menace of forest fires in Petersham, site of the Harvard Forest, and to curtail them if they develop. This offer has been given to Patrick J. Moynihan, chairman of the Massachusetts emergency committee, by Ward Shepard '10, Director of the Forest and head of the special committee to guard against forest fires...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Gives $5000 to Help Prevent Forest Fires | 9/29/1938 | See Source »

...baths, short-wave treatment, artificial fever therapy and vaccination, but have achieved few cures. Arthritis has over 65 variations and doctors cannot agree on any one cause. Certain it is that there is an arthritis type: a tired, nervous, constipated individual easily susceptible to colds and infections who may develop a full-fledged arthritis after a streptococcus infection, or a series of slight injuries to some organ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Arthritis Treatment | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...generated. Theoretically these currents cut across the more stable air tongues, dividing each air tongue into three parts or "cells" - a centre cell in which the circulation is counterclockwise, between two cells in which the circulation is clockwise - like three gear wheels revolving in series. Friction tends to develop kinetic energy, ultimately generating strong winds in the centre cell of each air tongue. The two outer cells tend to disperse this energy north and south. The effects of this dispersion reach the ground, and ground friction furthers the action of the brakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wets v. Drys | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...submerged individual men to opportunities of growth than that Duke University will launch a crusade against the use of tobacco." He points out that Harvard's closest relatives are its financial sources, which to a large degree have originated from Boston's State Street; that such dominance tends to develop a limited, even selfish, point of view right in the Yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON BEING INDIFFERENT | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

More rare and more deadly is the second stage, known to physicians as coccidioidal granuloma. Any time after an attack of "valley fever," about one patient in 500 develops symptoms of tuberculosis: enlargement of lymph nodes, lesions of the bones. Large ulcers develop all over the body and after extended suffering, 50% of the patients die. Medicine can offer them no help, for doctors know little of the course of the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Valley Fever | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

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