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...Geneva, Switzerland, Bacteriologist Henry Spahlinger heard a sudden explosion and felt himself splashed with slime. The container in which he was culturing virulent tuberculosis germs had burst. Knowing well the danger of infection the scientist stripped off his clothes and for two hours scrubbed his equipment and laboratory with germ-killing lysol. What germs he had involuntarily inhaled he hoped would die off be fore they could harm...
...foot of the mountain. Had they known the rigors which they were to face before their return they would never, never have gone. They went. And soon the first ridge of old egg shells left by summer visitors to western Vermont met our gaze. Commander Fish, who is a scientist as well as a lecturer, a mountain climber and an Elk stopped to inspect these. Old Mumbley-Jumbley, one of the natives in the train, said that these shells were from local Baptists who each year made a pilgrimage to the spring about four feet above the first story...
...would be interesting to compare this man of universal interests to another man of only slightly loess universal genius Goethe. Here also was one who beside being one of the greatest if not the supreme poet of one era, was a scientist of note, and the prime minister of a principality. Indeed there seems o be a similarity between these two men of which not the least evidence is in the sincere admiration of the poet for the painter...
...spent her summer in London picking up a cockney dialect and wardrobe) plays the wild specimen of the slums. Henry Travers is her ragged parent with Shavian grievances against middle-class morality. Together with Beryl Mercer as a simple housekeeper who understands women better than the celebrated bachelor scientists, they offer as fine a performance as the Guild or any other organization, can boast for this season. Liza Doolittle, howling gutter-virgin, is transformed by Scientist Higgins into a perfect specimen of Dutchess Britannica-triumph for Mr. Higgins' theory of phonetics. As the outside of a beautiful Duchess...
...Oliver Lodge, famed spiritist, sound scientist, was besieged but made no public comment on the alleged news from 'Gomaruru" that Martians were seven feet tall, with heavy black hair, slanted eyes, big ears; appetites for tea and tobacco; electric airplanes, gigantic waterpower developments (the "canals...