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...machine rotates and produces a centrifugal force up to 650 times gravity, the corpuscles settle out of the blood. Replacement fluid flows into the "ocarina" chamber, dilutes the original fluid which flows off through a vent. In a first test of 15 minutes Col. Lindbergh demonstrated that only a fraction of 1% of the original fluid remained in the "ocarina,'' that the remaining, washed corpuscles were uninjured and available for Dr. Carrel's study...
...high tide of prosperity, and rents were fixed on a basis of a "bull market". The administration at Yale, dilatory and ineffective though it has been in establishing a House Plan which will not go into operation until 1933, nevertheless had the foresight to set aside a fixed fraction of the Harkness gift and use this fraction as an endowment of the Houses. No such provision was made at Harvard...
TIME views hardboiledness with alarm, nevertheless cannot ignore the considerable fraction of the contemporary scene which is hardboiled. As to "fetish": if TIME had one, it could be none other than accurate reporting. As to current events, TIME competes only for the favor of those who are prepared to encounter any and all facts.-ED. Sirs I hereby order you to stop sending your publication to my home - 7 Webster Road, East Milton, Mass. . . . Any publisher who will gloat over the lan guage used in your issue of Feb. 1 (p. 4) is not deserving of the support of decent...
...crime was no rarity on the mainland; 2) the island of Oahu, on which Honolulu is situated, is not the largest in the archipelago while on Maui and Hawaii, all was serenely peaceful; 3) it was absurd to say that Hawaii had a "race problem," when only a tiny fraction of the mixed population was making trouble. The Hawaii Tourist Bureau cabled that the Kahahawai incident had been played up in a manner "terribly cruel to this self-respecting community and wholly unfair to many races living harmoniously here." White citizens declared recent events were "regrettable"but ridiculed any idea...
...last week they were worth about 60% of par. Thus Japan's credit was being scrutinized in the U. S. more carefully than at any time in a decade. Prime point is that in all Japan there is only $190,000,000 worth of gold bullion, a small fraction of its paper currency and discounts...