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Admiral Mahan died in 1914, too early to realize that World War I would produce another kind of power, air power. Far swifter, far more plastic, perhaps far deadlier than any weapon previously invented by man, its great potentialities nevertheless remained, after 25 years of development and 1,000 hours of the war that would ultimately prove its potency, almost as untried as the 2,000,000 troops facing each other last week across the Rhine...
...Idiot's Delight" is crammed with characters as well as comment. Suffice it to say that every role is brilliantly filled: the raving Communist whom the Italians have to shoot, the fat German scientist who decides to turn from his cancer cures to the invention of a new and deadlier gas, the pitiable little pawn of a waiter who went out resignedly for the Austrians and is now seen ready to go out resignedly for the Italians. Alfred Lunt is overflowing with the shrewdness and practicality his part calls for, and if no Middle-Westerner ever heard speech so raucous...
...receive the Mendel Medal as Catholic scientist-of-the-year for his researches on acetylene which led to the development of synthetic rubber (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931 et seq.). Before the ceremony a newshawk questioned the famed priest on another outgrowth of his researches, lewisite, only war gas deadlier than mustard gas. Said Father Nieuwland...
Calm and fearless, the bushmaster is one of the rare snakes (others: African mamba, Malayan king) which will attack a human being without provocation. Though its venom is slightly less toxic than the fer-de-lance's, it injects far more, hence is deadlier. One human victim died in less than ten minutes...
...attack from the outside. Mosquitoes, crab-lice, bedbugs, fleas help to make life what it is. If hitherto you have found your acquaintances uninteresting, this entertaining account of their pests & parasites will help you to see more in them. And if you yourself happen to harbor some of the deadlier species, Dr. Causey's professional attitude will help you take your miseries philosophically and with calm...