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Several years ago Dr. Dubos, born in France, Ph.D. of Rutgers, set himself to find out. His method was essentially simple. He got a great many soil samples, mixed them with various germ cultures. If there was any organism in the soil sample that found a germ to its liking...
Then Dubos found in soil samples a spore-bearing bacillus which actually kills five kinds of pneumococcus; staphylococcus (the pus germ), streptococcus, the diphtheria bacillus. The killing agent is a non-protein substance which Dr. Dubos has isolated in crystalline form. One hundred-thousandth of a gram* of the stuff...
Well-deserved, in fact, is Sponsor Albert Jay Nock's boost: "A worthy, unusual and original contribution to American letters." Samples:
For routine questions, she read answers from cards. Samples:
From A. F. H. W. offices in Philadelphia to the trade press also went free contributions of cartoons, jingles. Samples: 1) A studious-looking, bespectacled girl wearing a black brassiére, polka dot panties, ill-fitting stockings. The jingle: