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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immersion in alcohol and strong acids, and for this reason is called " acid-fast." Non-acid-fast bacteria (such as the typhoid bacillus) yield readily to the " antibodies" produced by the injection of dead bacteria of the same disease. But the acid-fast germs are encased in or contain fatty cells called " lipoids," which resist digestion when injected into the body and thus generate no antibodies. Dreyer's idea is to pickle the serum consisting of dead tubercle bacilli in formalin, a solution of formaldehyde. This eats away the fatty cells of the tubercle bacillus, which can then...
Reports from France contain information pointing to widespread activities of the Camelots du Roi, whose adoption of Fascist antics led to a bitter discussion in the Chamber of Deputies some days ago (TIME, June...
...strength of the Camelots is computed at 1,500,000? scattered throughout France. In every local arrondissement is a Camelot group, drilled and trained under the guise of "general athletics." The Royalist war chest is said to contain many millions of francs, and more money continues to flow into its coffers. Farmers and peasants are reported to be joining the organization...
...hard to see what good will result if the skull of Pocahontas is dug up from a quiet resting place at Gravesend. The site of Troy may well reveal historical secrets. Luxor may give up relies, and the buried city of Herculaneum may contain valuable manuscripts yet undiscovered. There is still plenty of chance for further archacologizing. But why should a man wish to dig up his supposed ancestors! If it be merely to test the efficacy of the curse to fall on the desecrator of her grave, he might well wait until Sir Conan Doyle has definitely proved...
...clock this afternoon in the Stadium, a Boy Scout Rally in which more than 3000 are expected to participate, will be held. The rally will contain many novel features, a wall-scaling race by eight teams from various parts of Boston and Massachusetts, and a bridge building exhibition in which Troop 39 of Dorchester will construct out of rope and wood a bridge and dismantle it again, in 25 minutes. Several sea scouting activities will also be demonstrated...