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Ardent, august, the members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science continued their palaverings at Oxford (TIME, Aug. 16). They palavered about: Baldness. Since thyroidal secretions stimulate both brain and hair growth, "it is not far wrong to assume" that, loss of hair benefits the intellect. Famine. Sir...
The weather on the morning of Tuesday, June 22, made it wholly impracticable to attempt the raising. No diving could be done. The FALCON (salvage tug) had to be moored with her bow over the stern of the S-51 to enable her to stay in position long enough to...
The U. S. Navy Department and the Bureau of Mines last week announced successful experiments anent a new use for helium. Faced with severe diffculties in diving operations to raise the sunken submarine S-51 from 128 feet of water off Block Island (TIME, Oct. 5, 12), experts designed a...
THE CITY OF THE SACRED WELL -T. A. Willard-Century ($4). Here is the story, told by an intimate friend, of Edward Herbert Thompson - "Don Eduardo", as they call him in Yucatan-to whom is credited the bulk of modern archeological knowledge of the great Mayan civilizations. Reading explorers'...
Manifestly he does not find his celebrity too inconvenient to have his little joke and bring his name once more before a curious and gossipy public. This is only another indication of his uniqueness. A short time ago his photograph flashed in all the newspapers showing him posed upon a...