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...giving to rabbits large numbers of small glass beads. Then the rabbits were killed at various intervals, and the distribution of the material throughout the stomach and intestines was noted. Recently, Doctors Walter C. Alvarez and B. L. Freedlander, San Francisco, of the George Williams Hooper Foundation for Medical Research in the University of California Medical School, used a similar method in studying passage of food through the human body. They found that the normal individual with good digestion and a daily excretion does not in 24 hours pass anything like 100% of the material given. Fifty small beads were...
Here the Institute for Research in Tropical America, founded by the National Research Council, has opened a laboratory, although in reality the entire island is the laboratory. Dr. David Fairchilds, chief plant explorer of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, was present at the opening of the "laboratory." Several prominent scientists are already at work there...
...defended his new venture as follows: "The cinema interests the musician through its rhythmic life, full of an intensity and a complexity, which in the picture L'lnhumaine becomes mysterious and spiritual. The poetry of machines is effectively interpreted through fantasy and an absolutely new technique. Much research and work has made this film the achievement of a poet. It is an artistic effort which has, at last, been realized; and the cinema becomes, as Jean Cocteau says, 'the tenth muse...
...research was to be successful it would probably have to be carried on for months if not years, with the danger of the infection's spreading throughout the entire period...
...palatial yacht, the Ara, with a party of friends, to undertake a cruise halfway round the world to study the ocean's bottom and the currents, to collect marine specimens for my museum on Long Island. It was recalled that the last yachtsman to undertake a serious oceanographic research was the late Prince Albert of Monaco, whose extensive labors were rewarded with the Agassiz gold medal of the National Academy of Science...