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...series of experiments conducted during the last three years at the University of Chicago's Billings Hospital. Dr. Oswald Hope Robertson last week was making final tests with a new germicidal vapor-propylene glycol-to sterilize air. If the results so far obtained are confirmed, one of the age-old searches of man will finally achieve its goal...
...fleet, these musine masses scurry tirelessly among the grasses, destroying grain, trees, any other vegetation they can get their teeth into. Then they vanish from the desolated fields as if they had sunk back again into the earth, which remains sieved with their burrows. Fear of their visitations is age-old: Apollo protected the ancients against them. In North Brabant, Holland, St Gertrude is prayed to as a protectress against mice...
...want to destroy forever the mechanical organization of mankind, such as the enemy has achieved in contempt of all religion, morals and charity. We want the age-old French ideal of liberty, equality and fraternity...
...Wadsworth House have done an excellent job of combining the traditional Summer School with the streamlined "third term" for Harvard men, one of the College's most prized privileges has become lost in the shuffle of transition. The custom of auditing other courses than one's own is age-old, but it will certainly die out if undergraduates are expected to hand over $10 in order to drop in on their favorite lecturers or supplement work on their divisionals...
...from the usual standard of the fall and winter terms, but the locale and the traditions will be much the same. Symphony Hall and the Raymor are still snuggled together on Huntington Avenue, Radcliffe is still up beyond the Common, and the Yard hasn't moved from its age-old position between Mass Avenue and Memorial Hall. But this year Symphony seems to go on forever, and the Yard is filled with Army and Navy officers. Things are much the same in form, but have altered mightily in substance...