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With this quotation, the World printed the following extract from the New International Encyclopedia (p. 723, Vol. XIII...
What is the nature of social conditions existing in large office buildings? Recently the Japanese Government determined to find out, loosed a band of secret operatives upon Tokyo. From data gathered came a report last week. Extract: "Modern office buildings are veritable wooing quarters, where flirtations are taking place. The tendency to attempt marriage as a result of chance acquaintanceship outside the home naturally is alarming so far as the well-being of the nation is concerned...
...German surgeons who were in congress at Berlin last week, Dr. Carl H. von Noorden sent his report from his clinic at Frankfurt-am-Main. He wrote that he had succeeded in making an extract of animal pancreases. This extract he had reduced to powder then compressed into tablets. Patients whom insulin sickened could swallow his tablets. He called this extract "horment...
...fortnight ago Dr. Frederick M. Allen of Morristown, N. J., told the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology of "myrtillin," vegetable extract which Dr. Richard I. Wagner, also of Morristown, had isolated after mulling over many a hundredweight of Maine huckleberry leaves (TIME, April 25). At the meeting of the American Association of Physicians in Atlantic City, May 3, and at 'the convention of the American Medical Association in Washington, May 20, Dr. Allen expects to give more ample reports on "myrtillin...
...ballads, songs or snatches; but one, a young Columbia University Assistant Professor "on the make" has turned out a very crisp and searing exposé5 of the hypocritical process by which the white man shoulders a "burden" of profitable produce which he has made the colonial native extract from soil rightly his. The other U. S. ruminator cited is the Editor of Foreign Affairs.6 He starts with such elementals as that "Balkans" was originally a Turkish word meaning simply "mountains"; and then proceeds to untangle the Balkan post-War skein. His major prophecy is the gradual supplanting of France...