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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have, etc., "CURZON OF KEDLESTON. " While the exterior situation in Europe is gloomy in the extreme, hidden events are somewhat more reassuring. It is known that several transactions were made recently between German, British and French industrial concerns. The practical effect of these transactions is to give Britain and France an interest in future German production. The scheme is ingenious and it may be justly inferred that the interested concerns would not enter into negotiations at the present time unless the Anglo-Franco-Belgian situation warranted such a course...
...ignored all the points of the British note in a policy of playing for time. Instead of answering the British note directly the French Government wants to know: How much Britain proposes to recover from Germany? Does Britain intend to remit debts due to her from the Allies? Etc. Finally the French note urges continuation of negotiations between the Allies...
...Mazzini, Kitchener, Hobbes, Spurgeon, Huxley, Keats, Browning, Kingsley, Wordsworth, Lamb, Carlyle, Emerson, Dickens, Tennyson, Meredith, Stevenson, Howells, et cetera ad infinitum, not to mention the well-known excesses of Grant and Mark Twain. On the other hand: Lincoln, Greeley, Wilson, Roosevelt, Wellington, Balzac, Goethe, Tolstoi, Ruskin, Haeckel, Bacon, Whittier, etc. Obviously, tobacco can have had no beneficial effect other than from habit on the great deeds of the world, for the foundations of civilization were laid, and Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Caesar, Dante, and many more lived and wrought before Raleigh brought the weed to the Old World. This type...
...more definite and verifiable conclusion, viz., that the use of tobacco has distinctly harmful effects on the work of immature boys in grammar and high school, and to a lesser extent in college. Whether the effect is physiological or the product of other factors, such as idleness, social distraction, etc., is impossible to determine, but the accumulation of academic records from numerous sources leaves no doubt of the fact...
...core of the book, however, is the scientific study made in the psychological laboratory of the Uni-versity of Wisconsin. Most such investigations are vitiated by faulty methods or factors of interest, suggestion, deprivation, prejudices, etc. Dr. O'Shea and, his colleague, Dr. Clark L. Hull, determined to eliminate these subjective elements, and devised a "control" pipe, containing an electric heating coil. The subjects were given this while blindfolded and were surprised to learn later that they had not been smoking tobacco, but merely drawing in heated air. Seven non-smokers and nine smokers (university students) were tested for three...