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...Smith who demonstrated that the crown gall, a plant disease resembling animal cancer, could be experimentally transmissted from plant to plant by cultures of a microorganism found in the gall. He is convinced that human cancers are caused by a similar infection, though no active parasite, either bacterium or protozoon, has yet been found. Many investigators of plant and animal cancer have caused cancer experimentally in varied ways-by injecting a virus from the growths, by painting rats with irritating substances, and by nematodes (microscopic worms), tape worms, other parasites. In short, Dr. Smith's theory is that...
MERTON OF THE MOVIES-Glenn Hunter as a movie-struck youth, whose loftiest screen ambitions turn out to be gall and Hollywood. A skillful satire on the eighth art, in which unconscious comedy proves to be the essence of pathos...
Crew A. C. M. 2.--Bow, Stearn; E. H. La Farge, Gates, Gall, Mentz, Trimble, Fox, stroke, Weymer...
...archangel in the British Museum, the front cover of the Psalter of Charles the Bald (ninth century), the South Kensington plate of Mary between Isaiah and Melchisedek (ninth century), a tenth century Holy Water vessel from Milan Cathedral, the Tutilo panel of the Book of Gospels from St. Gall, the Quedlinburg reliquary ascribed to King Henry the Fowler (tenth century), the comb of St. Heribert of Cologne (tenth to 11th century...
...Harvard Zoological Club. Mr. A. C. Kinsey on "Interesting Problems with Gall Wasps." Zoological Laboratory...