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...Hoover is not simply a long suffering engineer and scientist. He has unexpected abilities as a controversialist...
...Dutch scientist named Eijkman discovered that fowls contract a certain disease like beriberi if fed upon polished rice; that they can be cured by feeding them the part of the rice grain removed in polishing. In 1911 Casimir Funk, a Pole, proposed the name vitamine for this essential substance, whatever it was. Since that time vitamin has followed vitamin in quick succession?mainly discovered in U. S. laboratories. The orthodox three are "Fat-soluble A," "Water-soluble B," and "Water-soluble C." Then. there is Vitamin X," the reproductive vitamin. And lately many investigators have been working...
Without scientific training or background, Mr. Eastman is nevertheless a scientist. He is interested in the make-up of the human feeing?and willing to experiment to find out how and in what relationship the human can be the happiest in the job he holds...
...Dane Hall, which was burned during the late war. Langdell Hall was built only when the Law School had assumed an important place in the University. The University Museum is a great jumble and bulk of buildings, yet their very immensity inspires one to recall Agassiz, that great scientist who gave up science for a period to get enough money to establish a museum...
...MYSTERY IN ASIA?Ferdinand Ossendowski ? Dutton ($3.00). The Polish author-scientist-sportsman who has already interested the American people in his Beasts, Men, and Gods here narrates some of his earlier adventures on the same continent. Employed by the Tsar's government in investigating salt lakes, coal mines, gold deposits, Dr. Ossendowski was obliged to make long trips into the Kalunda and Bateni steppes, into the Altai Mountains, to the convict island of Sakhalin, into the extraordinary Ussurian country where the tropical tiger roams in the same forest as the reindeer and the northern goose and the Indian flamingo...