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East Try, West Try. First they attacked Malaya's east coast. This attack had just two foci and two aims. Beachheads were established at Kota Bahru, in the extreme northeast, and at Kuantan, about 200 miles north of Singapore. These two places are the keys to east coast transportation, Kota Bahru being the only rail-sea junction along the whole coast, Kuantan the only highway-sea junction, except in the extreme south...
Occidental Governments so fear the spread of China's pestilences that the U. S. Public Health Service has an outpost at Hong Kong, which last week reported the main foci of the epidemic as in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Canton, Hoihow, Macao. Amoy and Foochow were being scrutinized closely. The League of Nations has established a central observation post in Singapore, and last week the League's observers reported that refugees from the coast were spreading cholera inland. At the League of Nations' Geneva headquarters last week, its watchful Health Committee warned: "Repercussions which might become serious internationally...
...talks to 20,000 persons. He found that most universities offer some instruction in evolution, but that many present it as an unsubstantiated theory and many more avoid the term "evolution" entirely. Baylor University in Texas does not teach it at all. Mr. Katterfeld found that the worst metropolitan foci of anti-evolution feeling were Boston, Seattle, Los Angeles. In Boston he was informed that although there were no "official restrictions" on teaching evolution in the Boston high schools, a teacher who talked about it too freely would be fired on some other pretext. In the South, many a teacher...
...border still remains. The only pioneers now are the Mexican immigrants, "humble track-workers and fruit-pickers." Sadly, somewhat senatorially Author Fergusson concludes: "Taos and Santa Fe now are art colonies. . . . Santa Fe now has much in common with Greenwich Village, Carmel, Provincetown and all those other foci of cultural infection which pimple the fair face of our land." The Author had a gun of his own at 9, at 11 began shooting deer, riding range with the cattlemen round his native Albuquerque, N. Mex. After a restless course at two universities he passed his forest ranger's examination...
...relief of human suffering. . . Rheumatism, arthritis, myocarditis, gastric ulcer, nephritis, vascular disease and diabetes; have ceased to be vague expressions of a wrathful god and have become infectious in origin . . . the infection having been carried to the organs involved in general blood stream, itself infected from superficially situated foci of infection resident in the teeth and tonsils. . . . The consequence of these discoveries has been a complete reversal of many of our older clinical points of view and its utilization has altered in most significant fashion all medical, surgical and dental practice...