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Governor Henry Simpson Johnston of Oklahoma, who used to lecture on the religious aspects of the Ku Klux Klan, is a profound student of ritualism, spiritualism, occultism, etc. One day he found a Mrs. 0. 0. Hammonds, who could plumb the depths of Rosicrucian* philosophy, with him. Together they plumbed (TIME, March...
...endemics are so sharply limited disconcerts epidemiologists. They have long believed typhus an acute disease, carried from one person to another directly or by mediancy of head or body lice. But when they studied the Montgomery, Ala., district, the worst typhus focus in the U. S., they found the whites and Negroes of that region as little lousy as the whites and Negroes of the more northerly Birmingham district. Indeed body lice are almost unknown in Alabama, although head lice are found occasionally in school children. Lice apparently are not responsible for Montgomery typhus. In places further south the health...
...Amaral's work developing serums against U. S. snake bites was relatively easy. He had the technique of production. There remained to make a survey of noxious U. S. reptiles. He found only 19 kinds of them. Thirteen belonged to the rattler (Crotalus) family. Others were massasauga and pigmy rattler (Sistrurus family), copperhead and cottonmouth moccasin (Agkistrodon family), coral and harlequin (Micrurus family). Harlequins and corals are rare, appearing only in the south. Moccasins and copperheads frequent the southeastern and eastern states...
...Nationalist Government of China is engaged in disbanding its total armies of 1,500,000 men; and Marshal Feng, as the Nationalist War Minister, cannot very well keep his own superb force together while the others disband, without some excellent excuse. Last week he seemed to have found it in a word: SHANTUNG...
...that he represents his period both in style and material." At once he recognized the English 99 1-2 formula, and knew that his intuition had been right. Beckoning his comrades to him, he seized upon the writer of the betraying words. Great was the surprise when he found it was not a human being but a mechanical man, a perfected robot. The head came off in his hands. Examining it closely, he found it contained a replaceable cylinder on which was written "English 99 1-2". There was a complicated mechanism by which impressions on the roll were transferred...