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...nightmare of discomfort to thousands of Japanese soldiers was the capture of Jehol Province last winter. Lush dreams to millions of Chinese and a headache to the League of Nations was contained in an announcement last week that the Japanese-Manchukuo Government was doing everything in its power to increase the cultivation of opium in Jehol. The old Chinese tax of ten yuan ($2) a mow (1/6; acre) on poppy fields will be reduced one-half by Japan...
...know nothing of veterinary medicine as I have noted before, but your description of "nicking" is a crime (TIME, May 1). If it were an "excruciatingly painful" process no decent veterinarian-and many of us are decent -would do it. It is silly but causes a horse no particular discomfort when properly done. I have seen at least a dozen operated and observed them afterwards and they seemed as comfortable as any of our other animals. No incisions are made on top of the tail. If flexor muscles were cut eight or ten inches from the base of the tail...
...Humane Association and by Secretary John E. Cowden of the Jockey Club. The New York Veterinary Hospital says that in nicking an incision is usually made on top as well as beneath the horse's tail, that the operation need not necessarily be painful, that the chief discomfort is caused by the horse's inability to use his tail to brush off flies. Sometimes the operation does not have to be repeated, but the horse must wear his brace when not on show...
...undergraduate concentrating in one of the sciences, the coming of spring brings no small discomfort. The warm zephyrs from the fields are at war with the fumes of the laboratory and the young biochemist or physiologist searches his course catalogue sullenly in the hope of finding a combination of studies which will leave him an afternoon or two a week to air out his lungs. But he will be deceived; he will pick a course which requires two hours of laboratory work but actually demands six, and one which calls for two afternoons at first but ultimately takes three...
...burden on the building's aged back. But that its effects would be so disastrous as the President rather plaintively forecasts is a questionable assumption. All the important universities have been forced to make up heavy deficits in the last few years: while the effort has caused them considerable discomfort, none have fallen. Yale, firmly entrenched behind her endowment, doss not cut an impressive figure in violently crying, "Wolf," in the abashed faces of the New Haven tax collectors...