Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fresh evidence suggesting that the beat of the heart is initiated by radioactive elements in the blood was reported by Professor Charles Christian Lieb of Columbia (pharmacologist) from the researches of Dr. Hendrik Zwaardemaker, professor emeritus of physiology at the University of Utrecht, Holland. Professor Zwaardemaker took the hearts out of eels and frogs, pumped through them physiological salt solutions. The hearts beat in vitro half an hour or so, then ceased. Professor Zwaardemaker added small amounts of potassium salt to his solution. The hearts began to beat again. They continued so for 24 hours. Potassium is weakly radioactive. Other...
...That Corner: Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Prince of Wales, sportsman, accomplished knitter (TIME...
Good King Nadir wisely and benevolently announced last week that his prohibition law will apply only to native Moslems, will exempt Christian and other foreigners whose holy books enjoin them to take wine...
...bill which, if taken up and passed, would make the first day of the Turkish week fall on what is now the third, the second on the fourth, the third on the fifth, and so on. This would make Juma, the day of rest and worship, fall on the Christian Sunday, yet preserve the traditional sequence of Turkish days of the week. Even simpler than daylight saving, the Kemal plan is open to only one objection: possibly Allah will not like to be worshipped on Jehovah's day. Until popular feeling on this Godly point can be gauged, Mephisto...
Last week President James Carey of Princeton's Class of 1929 apologized to President John Grier Hibben of the University and offered damage payment for his classmates' vandalism of last June when they overturned and tried to abduct the Christian Student, allegorically righteous campus statue, perennially daubed by undergraduates and alumni with beer, flour, paint...