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...British Government last week edged one short step forward to the adoption of the dread Continental system of universal conscription of men for military training. In the House of Commons Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced plans for another attempt to increase Britain's armed forces by voluntary enrollment. Although the Prime Minister said that "we have not by any means yet exhausted what can be done by voluntary service," the House and the nation had the impression the failure of this scheme (plus another Adolf Hitler coup) would probably mean full conscription at last...
...bewilderment which nag the shorten the period of probation before a permanent appointments. Such also is its formulation of definite and positive criteria for advancement. The young teacher will now know what to aim for, what to stress; and he need no longer cower so abjectly before the dread god Publication. Together these recommendations should effectively dull the Demolition sword suspended over the lower academic ranks...
...received a Nobel Prize in 1908 for his work on immunity. > Professor Gaston Ramon, square-built, square-bearded son of a farmer, who lives surrounded by 400 horses at the Institute's annex in Garches. He makes tremendous quantities of serums against diphtheria, bubonic plague, tetanus and other dread diseases. These serums are sold all over the world. Professor Ramon is famed as the man who developed diphtheria antitoxin, and the principle of multiple vaccination: immunization against several diseases with a single vaccination. > Dr. Ernest François Auguste Fourneau, master of chemical therapy, known for his local anesthetics...
...from: i) a sudden awareness that in failing to capitalize the forces which produced the New Deal, John L. Lewis and the Wagner Act, the cinema has missed a golden opportunity; and 2) the general eagerness of producers to forestall a wave of U. S. antiSemitism, which they greatly dread...
Cattlemen and the U. S. Government have two principal reasons for desiring a clean-up of the remaining wild horses: it will save the range for livestock, remove the menace of the dread dourine (genital) diseases often found in wild horses...