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...probably a reputable scientist, but cranks innumerable have flourished on this same subject. Vide Dr. Alzamon Ira Lucas, "Psy.D., Ph.D.," of Rochester, N. Y., sponsor of the "American Super-Race Foundation," who came to Manhattan to hold a congress of superior Caucasians, and to raise $50,000,000 to endow his efforts to salvage the human race. He claims to have determined the sex of 95 babies in utero, including his own two children. His eugenic program is his own secret, for, says he: "I have to earn my living." But in due time mankind will be regenerated...
...living by marrying American heiresses. Generally women marry nowadays to get means of subsistence. All this would be replaced by a system whereby the state would register a couple desiring to establish a family. The state would insist that the baby come up to a certain weight and would endow motherhood...
...been learned (by Science Service) that the "secret chemical" rumored during the War to have been given German soldiers to endow them with supernormal energy was sodium dihydrogen phosphate. This salt was administered in the form of a drink to the shock troops as they entered battle or during long marches. For psychological reasons other battalions were served with a sham stimulant at the same time, acidulated with tartaric instead of phosphoric acid...
...established at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, England, which was John Harvard's almamater, in memory of Lionel de Jersey '15, who was killed in action at Arras in 1917 while serving as first lieutenant and acting captain in the Grenadier Guards: that the committee which is raising $250,000 to endow five professorships at Berea College, Kentucky, in memory of Professor N. S. Shaler '62, the great Harvard geologist, be continued for another year to go on with the campaign, which has already secured more than $50,000; and that the Associated Harvard Clubs establish an employment service with a central...
Woman's determination to cash in on the phrase " With all my worldly goods I thee endow...