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...youth has become aware of the cosmic problems of life, and his attitude towards the world is no longer that of a heedless child. For every fundamental obstacle to ultimate happiness he has formed many solutions, most of which are probably wrong, but some of which must contain the germ of truth. Unfortunately, because of the complex social system, in which his elders refuse to yield the sceptre, dreading a change in the status quo, he is compelled to remain in idle unrest, able to do nothing. To add to his plight, he perceives with wonder that the old have...
Cause. Until last week the cause of measles was uncertain. Bacteriologists for years suspected streptococci, the great family of germs responsible for scarlet fever, septic sore throat, erysipelas, childbed fever. But no one ever saw the germ of measles. Therefore bacteriologists tossed the subject into that catchpot of medical conjecture labeled VIRUS. Only means of immunity which proved effective was hypodermic injection of serum from the blood of people convalescing from measles; or inoculations of the nasal secretions of measles victims in the first stage of the disease...
Harlow's 1937 model goes to play Navy with the sincere and even enthusiastic encouragement of the undergraduates. The near approach to victory at the end of last season instilled the germ of a feeling of support, as close to the word "spirit" as Harvard dares to come, into every fan. The hope began to be expressed that perhaps Harvard was on the verge of a renascence of football prestige. That hope has not died; it has not yet bad the chance to be tested, but will be pitted Saturday against the strength of a powerful Navy team. Although Harlow...
...bristling Clerk Cohen was the Communist dictator of Hungary. After four months he was overthrown by Admiral Nicholas Horthy, present Hungarian strong man, finally ended up in Moscow, became a Soviet citizen. Since then, he has built up a reputation as the world's "No. 1 Communist Germ Spreader." He has been accused of fomenting Red intrigues in Hungary, organizing the extreme left wing of Loyalist support in Spain, encouraging the growth of French Communism. Brazil got skitterish when he was reported trying to land at Rio de Janeiro. London had a scare last February, and once Denmark heard...
...1870s Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch showed that microscopic germs cause diseases like anthrax, rabies, tuberculosis. Sixty years later and with vastly improved microscopes, bacteriologists are unable to see any germ positively responsible for smallpox, measles, infantile paralysis, the common cold. That invisible, specific contagia cause these diseases and many an-other is certain. Medical scientists call those submicroscopic substances viruses. But they do not know their true nature, and hence cannot scientifically prevent common colds or infantile paralysis...