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Some years ago a scientist announced that it was possible to cut the head from off the body and allow the intellect to exist without nourishment of any king. George Bernard Shaw thought the conceit a quaint one, it would save his getting dressed in the morning and allow him to exert his only important function unhampered, so he toyed idly with the idea in the columns of the London Times. Mr. Shaw is still at large. In direct antithesis we have Thomas Hardy, writing in the fullness of his fatalism "that thought is a disease of the flesh...
Undaunted by the fact that he had an angry President on his hands was "Admiral" Gardiner. Well did he know that any such inquiry as the President proposed would help to advertise his Big Navy idea, would stir the public mind on the naval deficiencies he honestly believed to exist. His only comment...
Chicago traders attributed this rise in wheat prices, with other grains tagging along, entirely to the Soviet crop failure. Not only was the Russian production short but grade was inferior. Russia had contracted to supply many a European market with wheat which did not exist. While Soviet officials scrambled to buy back their contracts, France, Germany, Italy turned to the U. S. and Canada for their supply. The Australian and Argentine crops would not come in until January. Meanwhile Europe was reported to have a scant four weeks supply (65,000,000 bu.) of wheat on hand fit for milling...
Last year the Nobel Prize in Medicine went to Rockefeller Institute's Dr. Karl Landsteiner. The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute is also endowed (for $640.000) by the Rockefeller Institute. There Dr. Warburg has studied tumor cells, has found that cancerous cells can exist and multiply for a limited time altogether without oxidation (a condition which is also true of some normal cells and which therefore is not the explanation of cancer). He is 48, has been head of the biology department of the Institute for 21 years. He is the son of the late great Physicist Emil Warburg...
...theorist Mr. Pollock commands attention by virtue of his efforts to purge the present day theatre of much of its coarseness, of its melodramatic tendencies, and of its often brutal realism. In accomplishing this end the play wright would exist the virtues of John Doe, showing that the lives of good, simple people often contain dramatic material of the first order, which may be converted into the proper sort of the artist is keen enough to see in the shiny serge suit of John Doe the flashing cuirass of a true knight...