Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slogans of that city's heroic defense. Mysteriously killed in battle was history's first Anarchist general, Buenaventura Durruti, organizer of the first Anarchist militia. Also passed out of the picture is the brains of Madrid's defense-42-year-old, tall, Austrian-born, Canadian-naturalized Emilio Kleber, former commander of the International Brigade, globe-trotting general of revolutionary armies...
...doctor of Prince Rupert, remote Canadian island just south of the Alaskan border, not long ago went a patient to undergo an operation. Suddenly he showed signs of diabetes. The physician, Dr. Richard Geddes Large, promptly dosed the man with insulin and asked him what he had been taking all these years in its place. The man said it was an infusion in hot water of the root of a spiny, prickly shrub called devil's-club (Echinopanax horridus). British Columbia Indians take potions of devil's-club for whatever ails them...
...doctors who read the report which Dr. Large and a chemist colleague. Dr. H. N. Brocklesby, published in last week's Canadian Medical Association Journal, it looked as though another form of diabetes relief, this time herbal, had come out of Canada. What element in the vegetable devil's-club made it apparently do the same job as the glandular product insulin was not revealed...
...chiefly by a unique mathematics course, most popular course in the school and required for all juniors and seniors. Called The Nature of Proof, this course is intended to promote critical thinking, differs from the usual study of logic by being entirely practical. It is taught by shock-haired, Canadian-born Dr. Harold Pascoe Fawcett. Dr. Fawcett starts with an ex planation of the principles of Euclidean geometry, goes on to show his students that every conclusion depends on assumptions and definitions, and, when correct, follows a concise mathematical pattern. His pupils then analyze speeches, political plat forms, advertising, riddle...
Worshipful reminiscences by Edison's Canadian-born private secretary, with many after-dinner anecdotes, with illuminating but fragmentary accounts of the attempt by German financiers to capture control of the infant electric industry...