Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently the box came into the possession of the Psychical Research Society, a rather playful group of scientists including Sir Oliver Lodge. Respectful, they used no crowbar or ax. Resourceful, they peeked last week into the box with the aid of an Xray. Amused, they saw only the outlines of a horse pistol, dice box, skull, scissors, bead bag, pins, coins, rings, and what is believed to be the roll of a manuscript...
...constructed during the war to provide an eating room for those men attending the Radio School, a special department begun to aid the government in teaching the uses and operation of radio. At the close of the war, when the Radio School was discontinued, the building, after being out of use for a short time, was turned into a cafeteria to supplement Memorial Hall, which contained a dining hall...
...Karl Koessler of Chicago utilized the new knowledge of vitamin E (see above) in devising a dietary treatment for pernicious anemia which he reported to the Chicago Society of Internal Medicine last week. Victims of pernicious anemia cannot, for reasons not yet entirely solved, manufacture red blood cells. To aid this manufacture Drs. George R. Minot and William P. Murphy devised a diet rich in iron compounds-liver, kidneys, gizzards. Dr. Walter W. Palmer of Manhattan proved this diet beneficial (TIME, Dec. 20). One reason for its good effects was that the liver, in particular, contained, besides iron, vitamin...
...Markle, oldtime anthracite coal operator, was for 47 years general superintendent and president of the Jeddo-Highland Coal Co. of Jeddo, Pa. Retired, he has established the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation to promote the general good of mankind. The foundation will aid and maintain medical research centres, hospitals, charitable institutions, libraries; help destitute persons; will eventually, said Mr. Markle, rival the scope of the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations...
...Years After. Apple-cheeked Ishbel Macdonald, 24, accompanied her father last week when he tried and failed to find by memory's aid alone the little house at No. 8 Lowell Road, Concord, Mass., where he honeymooned 30 years ago with Mrs. Macdonald, who died when Ishbel was 8. At last, Mr. Macdonald, who had concealed his destination from reporters as long as possible, was obliged to ask the way. With alacrity they told him, rushed ahead to plant the spiked tripods of their cinema cameras on the old Colonial porch of No. 8 Lowell Road...