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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their 70 years of Japanese domination. Neatly kept, the vaults are about 10 by 10 ft. and about 6 ft. high. The vaults have steps inside on which iron or earthen urns were placed. Some of the urns are three feet high, others only half as large. The urns contain the skulls and bones of departed Okinawans...
...vitamin fad is younger still. But this passage from St. Jerome's Life of St. Hilarion, written some 1,550 years ago and recently quoted by a letter writer to the British Nature, is an accurate description of vitamin A deficiency and its cure. Though ordinary olive oil contains almost no vitamin A, Nature's erudite correspondent noted that "a crude and unpurified oil such as St. Hilarion would have permitted himself" would contain enough of the vitamin to cure...
...consisting of Edwin M. Davidson '45, Leo H. Haimson '45, James G. Trager, Jr. '46, and Reuben P. Hersh '47 has been chosen and the first issue is scheduled to appear April 12. Successor to both the pre-war Harvard Progressive and the Harvard Guardian the new publication will contain contributions from faculty and students in the Social Sciences...
...good dentifrice "is not gritty and does not contain an acid." Grit test: use a nickel to rub some dentifrice on a piece of glass; if the glass is not scratched, the teeth presumably will...
...this plan is a bill published last month by Montana's lean, well-heeled Senator James E. Murray. Murray's bill, released frankly to stimulate discussion, calls for the President to submit to Congress along with his regular budget a National Production and Employment Budget. This would contain a careful estimate of public and private spending in prospect for the coming year and make proposals for bringing the total of both, if deficient, up to the amount necessary to provide full employment. In short, the Murray proposal does not intend to take up economic slack, once formed...