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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kemal snubbed the useless loyalty of Turkey's eunuchs. An admirer of Italian Fascism, he had borrowed Mussolini's bachelor tax idea. But when he set out to test it in the district of Smyrna, he chose to forget about Turkey's unique variety of bachelor, unknown in Italy. To the Turkish tax collectors, the eunuchs were neither women nor married men; hence, they were bachelors liable to the tax. Other men could escape the levy by means of a hasty marriage to one of Turkey's still ample supply of women. But the poverty-stricken...
...name proposed for an unknown substance whose removal from living cells seems to explain anesthesia. When certain water plants are soaked in distilled water their cells become unable to transmit stimuli, apparently because "R" is dissolved out. So the effect of everyday medicinal anesthetics may be due to a removal of "R" from human cells.-Drs. J. V. Osterhout and S. E. Hill of the Rockefeller Institute...
...gymnasium is now being used for calisthenics, dormitory basketball and handball. Unknown to nearly very one in the University; are two nets for indoor golf in the basement, which set up by the Golf team several years ago. Until an undergraduate discovered that these nets were in workable condition this year, they had been untouched for three years.To Lie Black and Uninhabited Under next Winter's Shows HEMENWAY GYMNASIUM,long a haven for Harvard's denizens of physical culture and the place of many a glorious Crimson victory on the court and mat, which is to be abandoned temporarily...
...affected by a condition which he named aniseikonia. Said Professor Ames to the Manhattan doctors: "I feel that before aniseikonia was discovered we were somewhat in the position of the astronomers studying the solar system before all the important planets had been located. The effects of the unknown ones could be felt but they were still unknown, and the relationships could not be worked out. They are now worked out, as it is hoped that some day aniseikonia's will...
...with profit. They are taking up the well-known and slightly nauseating White Man's Burden, much to its surprise, possibly to its displeasure. The remark that Japan will oppose any Chinese effort to enlist foreign support for resistance to Japanese encroachment is, in its own way, magnificent. The unknown author of that statement is Mr. P. G. Wodehouse's most dangerous rival...