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...Donkeys. Simpler half of California's political pandemonium was the Democratic. Upton Sinclair, who in 1934 ran away with the Democratic nomination for Governor, much to the pain of Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, was almost erased from the picture by EPIC's defeat in the election. Nevertheless, he left behind him an organization headed by his campaign assistant, State Senator Culbert L. Olson, who remained as Democratic State Central Committee Chairman. Senator McAdoo, who regards California as his political proconsulate, did not choose to honor State Chairman Olson with more than the scantest patronage. When Mr. Olson threatened...
...three years Biochemist William Gumming Rose and his associates at University of Illinois have fed artificially-made food to white rats. Of the ingredients in natural food only the proteins furnish nitrogen available for tissue building. Chemists have broken down the proteins into more than 20 simpler compounds called amino acids. Dr. Rose accordingly prepared and purified all the amino acids he knew of, fed them to baby rats together with synthetic carbohydrates, fats, salts and vitamins. Something was lacking. The animals failed to grow, wasted away, died. Then Dr. Rose succeeded in isolating another protein component: alpha -amino -beta...
...Wrote simpler and more legible hands...
Dean Murdock expressed the hope that there would be in the future a more adequate center for the graduate students modeled after the House system, but somewhat simpler in nature. President Conant seconded him in this hope, saying, "We hope to have better material means for the furthering of acquaintanceship of the students in the Graduate School...
...stand against the opinion of practically the whole biological world." It was not that Dr. MacBride could not stomach the fundamental fact of organic evolution. Probably no sane biologist, and certainly none of Dr. MacBride's calibre, remains unconvinced that all complex forms of life have arisen from simpler organisms. It was the mode of evolution that Dr. MacBride disputed. He is an ardent Lamarckist, believing that certain acquired characteristics can be inherited. For that reason he sticks out like a heterodox thumb in Britain as Duke University's venerable Professor William McDougall does...