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...precipitation test is especially precious to distinguish tuberculosis meningitis from other forms of that brain disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tuberculosis Meeting | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...Rats are merely large mice. There are about 200 species widespread on every continent including Australia. But Madagascar has no native mice. Amateurs distinguish a mouse with 210 or more scales on its tail as a rat. Most mice have 180 scales. Rats follow the migrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rat Bite Fever & Paresis | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...legitimate drama than at the corresponding peak period of last Christmas. Strictly from a business standpoint, the winter has offered lean pickings for producers in general, but since January 1, many of these have prospered exceedingly. And today there are more than a dozen shows on Broadway which distinguish the theatrical years as one of the best in some time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/6/1929 | See Source »

Under the revised plans, two main parts of the general field are recognized. One deals with social structure and development, the other with social theory and standards. It is intended to require the student to study society both descriptively and critically and to distinguish clearly between the two modes of approach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIELD OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL ETHICS REVISED | 4/5/1929 | See Source »

...appear in the Chamber, last week, to defend his Government. Though suffering from only the lightest attack of influenza, the wise old "Lion of Lorraine" kept to his bed, and let the demagogs in the Palais Bourbon roar. For periods of five, ten, 15 minutes it was impossible to distinguish any orator's impassioned periods above the babel. When a vote of confidence was taken - on a trifling issue of local politics - no one seemed to care much whether or not the Government went down, but it didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Cabinet on Brink | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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