Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chain-papers excused Nominee Hoover on the ground that "there seems to be something about political campaigning that just naturally breeds circumlocution. The roundabout instinct gets into the blood." They cited Nominee Smith...
MEXICO "Earthquake! Earthquake!" "Mexico's Idol of Flesh and Blood" was boldly denounced and defied before the Mexican Congress last week by fiery spellbinder and factional leader Senor Antonio Soto y Gama. Though he dared not name "Mexico's Idol," the denouncer clearly meant bullnecked, heavy-jowled President Plutarco Elias Calles. When Senor Calles' term expires, in December, it is understood that he will become the Leader ("Boss") of the new "Grand National Revolutionary Party." This will reunite the national majority once dominated by the late, assassinated President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30); and therefore factional...
Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute, has a way of calculating physiological age. He takes blood serum and centrifuges it until the serum is free of cells. In the serum he cultures pure tissue or tissue cells, generally fibroblasts. Simultaneously he cultures the same sort of tissue in a saline solution. The older a person is (physically) the slower will his tissues grow in his serum. The ratio of tissue growth in serum to tissue growth in salt solution is Dr. Carrel's "growth index...
...Fellow Americans, West Point is not turning out today any group of blood-thirsty fighters. The men who are about to be rewarded by diplomas are not products of an unbalanced militarism. These young men are sensitive, what though their cognomens be "Spike" or "Biff", and they have not a little Cambridge in them to balance the West Point. Remember what I have said in the next war. The cadet of today is the general of tomorrow"--West Point Commencement Address...
Traditions. What are they? What do they mean? Are they the effete practices that thin-blooded men of degenerate stock use to bolster their sense of defeated pride? Are they outworn customs fit only for academic discussions? Are they part of the life-blood of the Nation? What are they, and are they worth following...