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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Distribution of the questionnaire came on the heels of statements by Ray Barbuti, Olympic 440-metre champion, although officials said the one had nothing to do with the other. Barbuti, suspended by the A. A. U. recently after criticism of amateur conditions, charged in the April number of Sportsmanship (a magazine published by the Sportsmanship Brotherhood) that amateur athletics often are paid by promoters. The payments are arranged through intermediaries, he said, and paid in cash. Payments run as high as $500, he declared. He asked a thorough investigation and remedial measures. Later, however, he refused to give names...
...Although scarlet fever has been recognized as a distinct disease since 1675 (by Thomas Sydenham), not until January, 1923, was a single case developed experimentally in man or lower animal. Then Dr. George Frederick Dick and his wife Dr. Gladys Henry Dick of Chicago took a hemolytic streptococcus (blood-dissolving bacilli) from a lesion in the finger of an infected nurse and injected the germs into a 25-year-old woman. She developed scarlet fever. The Dicks developed a scarlet fever antitoxin. Last week's Germans, Professors Heinrich Finkelstein and Fritz Meyer of Berlin, claimed to have found...
...clear rust from the steel plumbing of their building. They drain the water off and force dry steam into the pipes. The heat makes the pipes expand, the rust shrink loose from the pipes. The steam is released and water flushes the rust away. The pipes become clean, although pitted, and thinner than when bought...
...Rabindranath Tagore. From London came the British Broadcasting Co.'s Education Director J. C. Stobart. From-Czechoslovakia came interpreters of the famed-"Sokol movement" for national physical education. Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan sent representatives. So did Australia and New Zealand. No U. S. educators were officially present, although two were invited from the Adult Education Association; but their absence in no way diminished the grand manner or the importance of the meeting last week in Victoria and Vancouver of the Canadian National Council of Education...
...Although Professor Karpovich himself admits that he is slightly prejudiced against the present regime in Russia, nevertheless any summary of the eleven years of experimentation which has caused so much comment should do a great deal to clarify a highly involved and perplexing innovation. For after all, whether one sympathizes, with or violently opposes Bolshevism, and in a larger sense Communism, the field is not one that can be ignored by anyone interested in social experimentation...