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The plans submitted immediately after the contest was announced were chiefly of the ready-made variety; i. e., plans which people with specific cure-alls for the world's ills have been advocating for some time. The Policy Committee made public none of the plans, but some of the...
Homeopathy (from Gk., "like disease"). Founded by Samuel C. F. Hahnemann, a Leipzig physician, in 1796. His main work was The Organon of Rational Healing, which embodies the four main principles of the homeopathic creed: 1) The "proving" or testing of all medicines on healthy persons before their use in...
The Railroad Board declared in a statement: " The position of the Pennsylvania System in this matter is devoid of intrinsic merit, violative of the will of Congress and destructive of the rights of the employees." President Rea took " specific exception" to these charges. He maintained that the Board's...
Heresy Hunters, Dr. John Roach Straton and 30 other members of the Fundamentalist League of New York and vicinity descended upon the Baptist headquarters at 30th Street and Fifth Avenue, New York, marched to the room of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, demanded to see the files of that...
Artificial wood has been made by a Norwegian inventor from a mixture of 50% sawdust with chalk and chemicals, subjected to heavy pressure. The resulting substance has the same specific gravity as wood, has the hardness of oak, can be planed, sawed, bored, nailed, painted, stained or polished. It is...