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...task, partaking somewhat of the nature of research. The rate at which dust is deposited at various places and under varying conditions must be studied. This accounts for the relatively coarse dust particles, but it gives only the aggregate quantity collected in a given place over the period of test. The next step is to study the nature of this material with a view to determining. If possible, where it came from. This involves chemical and microscopic study of the dust collected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMOKE NUISANCE IS UNDERGOING STUDY | 4/2/1930 | See Source »

...accustomed to the omission of other foods from their diet, may subsist on an exclusive meat diet in a temperate climate without damage to health or efficiency." Said Meat-Eater Stefansson: "I am wide awake and am more aggressive in my work than I was before I started this test. . . . They [the vegetarians] are like religious fa natics. Eating vegetables and fruits is just like a form of religion." Last week Dr. Louis Harry Newburgh of the University of Michigan's Medical College, no fanatic, gave out a statement. He related an experiment he had conducted: a laboratory worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: All-Meat Controversy | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

...Judge Rutherford whether he would not be troubled by bogus Davids applying for admission to consecrated No. 4440 Braeburn Road. Said he: "I realized the possibility of some old codger turning up bright and early some morning and declaring he was David. The men whom I have designated to test the identity of these men are officers of my societies. . . . They will be divinely authorized to know impostors from the real Princes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: California Cults | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

...William Jennings Bryan has been the eloquent champion of causes which became generally known as lost causes. Silver-tongued, he has stood for free silver, fundamentalism, and Prohibition. Crucifixion upon a cross of gold is no longer feared; fundamentalism is not generally accepted. Prohibition alone remains to meet the test of history. Fundamentalism, however, is not yet dead, and its potentialities for simplifying the present college curriculum may yet give it a new lease of life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MONKEYS AND MEN | 3/28/1930 | See Source »

...final and probably the severest test for the Crimson runners will be the I. C. A. A. A. A. meet, to be held this year in the Stadium on May 30 and 31. Representative from all the larger eastern colleges are expected to participate while teams form Stanford, the University of California, and the University of Southern California will make the transcontinental trek in an attempt to repeat their former victories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRACKMEN REPORT FRIDAY FOR SPRING SEASON OPENING | 3/26/1930 | See Source »

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