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...annual death rate from the disease, now recorded as 150,000 in the U. S. and Canada, would be reduced by at least 33%, or 50,000 per year." But integrity compelled Dr. Stuart William Harrington of the Mayo Clinic to note that "present clinical methods are inadequate to detect malignancy until it is fairly well advanced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer is Curable | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

Stations in the farflung line will use identical instruments, to measure wind currents on Earth and high above, to observe clouds and Northern Lights. They must study sunshine, moonshine, skyshine. They will take the temperature of air, earth, water. They will detect characteristics of the Earth's magnetic flux. New will be the research into the nature of radio reception everywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Polar Year | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

Senator Couzens: Oh, don't be so innocent. How do you detect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bear Hunt | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

...purely native sources. In his own music Chavez makes the winds of the modern orchestra shrill stridently like primitive chirimias. He has added swishing gourds to the conventional percussives. But most of H. P.'s music was too obtrusively harsh and loud for listeners on first hearing to detect the Indian tunes which he claims to be part & parcel of his work. It costs Mary Louise Curtis Bok a tidy sum to finance the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company's carefully prepared productions. When Stokowski conducts, the bills are still higher because he likes to use the full Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chokopul's Travels | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...spite of all, Author Pitkin remains incorrigibly optimistic. With not unheard-of scientific naivete he hopes to save mankind by mechanization of many of man's functions. In his age of Super-Sense, "A hay fever sufferer will . . . have a pocket sniffer which will enable him to detect in the summer breeze the April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Braining Stupidity | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

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