Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vain to obtain a serum from the blood of artifically infected monkeys, for the monkey, although the only animal susceptible to the disease, is so sensitive that it cannot survive the attack of the paralysis germ. For this reason the Commission is requesting volunteers, survivors of the disease, to come forward with offers of their own blood. So far as results to date have been tabulated, the serum treatment seems a remedy for infantile paralysis if it is administered within the three days which ordinarily elapse between infection and actual paralysis...
...modeled on those of Edith Wharton. They were surprised on scanning the first installment of Jalna to discover a robust and brawny fiction, crowded with characters energetically alive, scampering into unexpected breaches of decorum. More than that, this book is one of the few important literary works which has come out of Canada in many a year. The central figure of the story,. Alayne, a participant of a more effete civilization, shares the reader's interest and bewilderment at the gnarled fibrous character of old Adeline, who towers over the book like a huge shadowy tree, leaves stirring...
...dirty red igloos. Their orifices are plugged up and a fire lit under a stout grating upon which the raw bricks are piled. In six to ten days they are burned hard and useful. Their red color is the result of iron in the clay and sand. White bricks come of lime added to a specially prepared clay. Various minerals added to the base clay give "tapestry" bricks...
...University faculty on international law and politics, has launched what promised to be the most successful attempt yet made to bring out a representative and practical expression of opinion for the wealth of foreign students enrolled in the University. The Harvard International Council "a miniature League of Nations", will come into being tonight with auspicious formalities, when Professor Hudson addresses the gathering of representatives from forty-seven nations and dependencies. Such an event holds prospects fully as thrilling as a more combative meeting of twenty-two men on Soldiers Field...
Harvard has already been fortunate in having a great number of distinguished foreign members. They have come here unusually for one purpose-to study, and they have been allowed to go their own way in the normal manner of the average undergraduate. Some, perhaps, have felt a coldness in the traditional Cambridge absence of attention, but the majority have a probably been rather grateful for an atmosphere which minimizes curiosity and accepts one and all in the same spirit of cosmopolitanism. The foreign student wishes to step out of the tourist role, to lose his consciousness of nationality, to observe...