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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Synthetic Atmospheres. Without oxygen animals smother; in pure oxygen they die also because of irritation and congestion in the lungs. Yet it must not be assumed that the best possible mixture for sustaining life is the natural atmospheric mixture of about 79% nitrogen, 20% oxygen and 1% other gases. After twelve years of smothering rats, monkeys and guinea pigs in various artificial atmospheres ranging from pure helium to nitrous oxide, Dr. John Willard Hershey of McPherson College reported that a mixture of 75% argon and 25% oxygen enabled the animals to get along as well as usual, that...
...Cathedral in London, 1,000 worshippers gawped when a shapely young woman of 25 walked to the altar, threw off a long cloak, knelt stark naked, was hustled out. In Rome where Pope Pius XI remained in ailing privacy Easter was the quietest in years. In Moscow, 60,000 die-hard citizens, oldish and mostly women, packed the city's 28 surviving churches...
...They raised a defense fund, printed booklets denouncing the case as justice's greatest miscarriage, laid Mrs. Lamson's death to an accidental fall. After his conviction, Lamson went to the San Quentin Prison condemned row, pounded out his best-selling book, We Who Are About to Die. Trial No. 2, ordered by the State Supreme Court, resulted in a hung jury. Trial No. 3 was adjourned due to an irregularity in the venire rolls. Resumed, Trial No. 3 lasted two months, ended fortnight ago in another jury deadlock...
Party lines broke, however, when 30 hours before Hauptmann was scheduled to die on Jan. 17-New Jersey's Court of Pardons, a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the U. S. Supreme Court having denied his pleas for clemency or delay- Governor Hoffman granted him a 30-day reprieve "for divers reasons," hinted that important new evidence had come to light. Few weeks later, no new evidence having appeared, New Jersey's Republican State Committee openly broke with the Republican Governor by declaring its intention to displace him as leader of the Party...
...entire War without missing a battle or stopping a bullet. He won two decorations (Distinguished Conduct Medal, Military Medal), was known as "a good man," but never applied for a promotion and never got one. After the War he wrote his personal account of it (Old Soldiers Never Die, as yet unpublished in the U. S.) and sent it to Graves for his opinion. Graves then urged him to write the story of his pre-War soldiering in India and Burma. Result was Old Soldier Sahib...