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Twenty-five Yardling oarsmen were X-rayed at the Dillon Field House yesterday in a long-range experiment to prove conclusively that rowing does not affect the size of the heart. Guinea pigs for the tests, these Freshmen will submit to similar X-rays semi-annually throughout their four years of college...
...capybara, a guinea pig as big as a wolf...
...founded, a government that builds no battleships will save money; if ill founded, the government will lose an empire. Meanwhile, other Navy and War Department officials pointed out that the only warship ever sunk by planes was the Pantry, whose limited artillery prevented it from being a satisfactory experimental guinea pig; that if England, Italy and Japan knew battleships were worthless, they would not be building them as fast as possible...
Professor Burgess was reporting what he and his colleague, Dr. Leonard S. Cottrell Jr., had learned in one of the most thorough statistical studies of marriage ever made in the U. S. It had taken seven years, and the guinea pigs were 526 young married couples in Illinois. Married from one to six years, they were mostly city folk, college or high-school graduates, Protestants, more than half with an income of $1,800 or more...
Australian Angle. Dispatches from Australia pictured this spunky Dominion as aroused last week lest the United Kingdom have any sneaking thought of slaking Germany's land hunger by giving the Nazis a slice of New Guinea held under mandate by Australia. To block this the Dominion's famed and fiery Wartime Prime Minister William Morris Hughes, who at the Versailles Peace Conference was among those chiefly instrumental in having Imperial Germany despoiled of her colonies, has now at the age of 73 been made Australian Minister for External Affairs. Cocked & primed this week was oldster Hughes, ready...