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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toepfer also reported that most of the men who are going to be admitted have been accepted already. "In another week our class will be formed," he said. The Law School may admit up to 650 applicants, including the 200 veterans, but a certain fraction of these usually withdraws before September...

Author: By Robert L. Saxe, | Title: Record Numbers Apply For Law Class Entrance | 5/11/1954 | See Source »

Declining along with notes and mortgages although at a much more gradual pace was real estate. Desiring to hedge against inflation, Treasurer Edward W. Hooper brought the investment fraction tier up in real estate to a high of two-fifths in 1881--the year he acquired the land now occupied by the downtown Jordan Marsh...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: Treasurer Cabot Invests $308,000,000 | 5/1/1954 | See Source »

...Bright Wilson, Jr., chairman of the Chemistry Department, explained that pre-medical students who need background in biochemistry comprise a large fraction of his Department, but that this was not the only consideration in appointing the new professors. "We felt the time had come," said Wilson, "for us to emphasize the chemistry side of biochemistry. Several other branches of the University, including the Biology Department and the Medical School, also study the subject, but from other points of view...

Author: By Robert L. Saxe, | Title: Chemistry Dept. Shapes Venture in Biochemistry | 4/27/1954 | See Source »

...California at Los Angeles extracted a substance from the liver of victims killed by cancer. The substance usually had no effect on blood samples from healthy persons, but it left a precipitate in samples from patients with cancer or some other diseases. The biggest trouble was that the liver fractions Dr. Penn obtained were too variable, and other medical men could not duplicate his results. Then a team of U.C.L.A. researchers joined Dr. Penn, broadened the attack and succeeded in making from bile acid a chemical called ethyl choledienate. Uniform and more stable than the liver fraction, it reacts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Have I Got Cancer? | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

...killed in the Madrid bull ring in May 1801. Goya pictures Illo down before the bull, his hands grasping feebly at the tearing horns. In this, as in all the etchings, Goya seemed to stop the action with a camera's precision in its most exciting fraction of a second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Francisco of the Bulls | 4/19/1954 | See Source »

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