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...often happens that a bite through clothing is not infectious for the simple reason that the mad dog's saliva is wiped off his teeth as they bite; through the clothing. The virus entering the flesh works its way to a nerve where it finds the best medium for proliferating. And as the viri develop they travel up the network of nerves in the animal's, or human's, body to the spinal cord, and eventually to the brain. The virus of rabies is more active in cold weather than in warm. There are more dogs actually...
...television (TIME, Feb. 22), demonstrated his success at utilizing rays adjacent to the visible spectrum-invisible infra-red rays-to see things in complete darkness by mechanical means. The process involved isolating the invisible rays at their source (a special "search-light") and passing them through or to a medium that would render their effect visible. Since infra-red rays can be cast farther than any visible rays, and will penetrate fog and smoke more readily, the inventor predicted important military uses...
...symposium on ghosts (TIME, Dec. 13), drew to a close. Frederick Bligh Bond, British psychic researcher and architect, described the helpful conduct of a departed spirit during excavating work at mystical Glastonbury Abbey, 20 years ago. A friend of Architect Bond's, one John Alleyne, had been the medium for messages in automatic writing. "All knowledge," the ghost had assured them, "is eternal, and is available to mental telepathy." Later had followed a rough drawing, which some monkish Latin described as the lost chapel of King Edgar, 30 yards long at the Abbey's eastern end. This threw...
...cause during the Revolution, in his prose and poetry engaging at the same time in his near-farming adventures. In 1790 Thomas Jefferson, then Secretary of State, appointed him translator to the State Department. At the same time he took over the editorship of the "National Gazette", through the medium of which he violently opposed Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists...
...Stewart Edward White, big game hunter and author, has described ectoplasmic emanations which were invisible even in the dark, which were felt as cold areas near the medium. If ectoplasm was pinched, the medium exclaimed and clasped herself...