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...growth of tubercle bacilli in guinea pigs, gave the drug to 24 hopeless human patients in advanced stages of pulmonary tuberculosis. Nineteen improved (though four relapsed after treatment stopped). Dr. Hmshaw's conclusion: though streptomycin arrests, it does not eradicate T.B will be valuable only as a supplement to other forms of treatment. Other findings-Tularemia (rabbit fever). A seven-day treatment with streptomycin (one gram a day) promptly cured 63 out of 67 cases...
...confronted with an accomplished fact, the Soviets are giving evidences of sore temptation to join with us and the British on terms we can agree to. This is natural, for we have both a carrot and a stick to move them. The carrot is reparations, desperately needed to supplement the war-damaged Soviet economy. The stick is the Ruhr, the greatest industrial area in Europe, which the Kremlin policy-makers deeply fear to see under the complete control of the Western powers. To secure any change of Soviet policy in Germany by these means is our maximum objective...
...fifth Annual Inter-Collegiate Yacht Racing Summer Dinghy Regatta held last Sunday in the Charles River Basin, the "summer supplement" of the Harvard Yacht Club placed third in a field of 16 colleges...
During the three and one-half week food economy program in the dining halls, the savings totaled 87 cents per man, enough to buy 5,220 calories of food, substantially enough to supplement the diet of a European student for about three days...
...Mencken, American Language, Supplement I: "Shambles is a very old word in English. ... In American usage it has now come to signify any sort of 'very great, perhaps complete disorder, confusion or destruction...