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Working in the "pit," a windowless sub-cellar of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. Dr. Robert S. Mulliken, National Research Fellow has for the past five months been carrying out elaborate researches in band spectra, almost unknown to the University at large...
...Unknown Battlefields...
...southeast corner of Wall and Broad streets, however, there is a low, massive building with no label at all. Over its door one sees " 23 Wall Street"?that is all. Not to know it, however, argues yourself unknown, for this is the office of J.P. Morgan...
...present in Kala-azar are called Leishman-Donovan bodies (from the British surgeons who discovered them in 1903). They are most irregularly shaped and spotted little beasts, in one stage developing tails and called flagellates. How they get into the body or are transmitted from man to man is unknown. They are normally only a parasite of man and the bedbug. While this fact would seem suspicious, various thorough investigations have not been able to prove that the bedbug is the transmitting agent. It is believed by many that some species of biting and bloodsucking insect is guilty, and further...
...Blatt = slang noun of unknown origin, meaning rebuff, censure, Insult...