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The assertion is put forward in the Socialist press that Secretary of State Hughes uses, or rather misuses, his office for propaganda purposes. Two specific charges are made:
The drug was discovered by Dr. Walter A. Jacobs and Dr. Michael Heidelberger, of the Rockefeller Institute, in 1915, after 63 distinct combinations had been found failures. It is somewhat similar in structure to arsphenamine (neo-salvarsan), the best specific for syphillis yet found, which was devised by Ehrlich, of...
The other criticism is specific. The pictures of class leaders on page 236, with their nicknames surrounded by quotes ("Dolph", "Soapy", etc.) look as if they were intended for a high-school annual. In every other respect the Red Book fully lives up to the Harvard tradition of dignity and...
A reported remedy for cancer developed by Dr. W. Blair Bell, of Liverpool, seems, on the basis of the meager information at hand, to be the most promising of all recent " cures" that have been suggested (TIME, May 19). Dr. Bell's specific is a solution of colloidal lead...
The specific purpose of the excursion is to "increase the familiarity with the interests and beauty of the American National Parks". That it should be necessary thus to advertise and to create interest in one's own country is unfortunate, especially when there exist nineteen national parks offering unequalled scenic...