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Ever since the days of Hippocrates (400 B.C.), huge tides of flu have washed the world. Contrary to popular opinion, the epidemics have not always run in cycles of 20 years. In modern times the span between them seems to be around three decades. A wave of flu inundated Europe and the U. S. during the 1830s; others followed in 1847, 1889. Greatest epidemic in history was the scourge of 1918-19, which killed more than 20,000,000 people all over the world, more than half a million in the U. S. alone. Last year Ihe Journal...
...Netherlands East Indies the Japanese suddenly discovered a fresh wave of "anti-Japanese sentiment." This caused the Tokyo Government to deliver a strong note of protest to Netherlands Minister General J. C. Pabst. Since the Japanese have failed to get all the oil they want from the East Indies, this protest looked like the beginning of a new economic holdup. The Japanese have always considered it fair to shoot a recalcitrant holdup victim...
With Andre Maurois appearing as the opening night feature, the long-delayed Crimson Radio Network will put on a three and a half hour show tonight from 7:30 until 11 o'clock, over a network that includes Eliot, Lowell, Leverett, and Winthrop. The reception wave-length will...
Armed with axes and spurred on by a wave of alcoholic enthusiasm, the three patriots climbed over all obstacles only to run into an ambush of Yale watchmen. The cops held on with bulldog ferocity, and finally escorted the miscreants to jail, where they remained until after midnight...
...fall of the protoplasmic force on a graph, he gets elegant curves. These excite the admiration of Seifriz, who exclaims: "Did you ever see such perfect curves? Nothing like it has ever been done before. It makes biology an exact science!" Furthermore, Kamiya has noted definite changes in the wave forms and amplitudes of his curves. This he takes to mean that Physarum has not just one rhythm but several rhythms acting together. In other words the life throb of the slime mold is not just a simple drumbeat; it is an orchestration...