Word: groups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cake-not only free but without presentation of ration cards. Two hundred fellow office workers were treated to free beer by a Berliner who has two sons and a son-in-law at the front-the beer cost him a month's salary. Meanwhile at least one group of the Hitler Youth, after holding a special meeting to celebrate the Führer's latest triumph, rang doorbells and spread the news...
Last fortnight the U. S. Public Health Reports published the results of her experiments. In a typical experiment she divided 25 mice into five groups. Four groups were fed minute amounts of sulfapyridine, varying from one to eight milligrams. The fifth group got no medicine at all. Half an hour after the drug was given, each mouse was inoculated with enough Hemophili to kill him 100 times over. Results: 1) all the unprotected mice died; 2) "no mouse died which received eight milligrams of the drug"; 3) the number of hours the other mice lived "was directly proportional...
...California students can now use more specific ratings of their professors. Last week undergraduates on California's Berkeley campus thumbed a handy guide to their faculty. The booklet, called Guide to Courses, was compiled by an anonymous group of students, sold for 10? a copy by a leftist campus bookshop. Candid, irreverent but informative, the Guide to Courses quickly sold 515 copies. Sample ratings...
...Institute for Advanced Study, where topflight scholars (well subsidized by a $5,000,000 endowment provided by Newark Merchant Louis Bamberger and his sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld) might devote themselves to the pursuit of pure learning. He brought to his Institute, housed in Princeton, N. J., Albert Einstein, a group of promising Ph.D.s. This month Dr. Flexner saw his Institute (now richer by $3,000,000) move into its own building, Fuld Hall, on Princeton's outskirts. This week, 72 and ailing, Dr. Flexner retired as the Institute's director. To succeed him, the trustees elected Dr. Frank...
...show on-the-scent results, solving the mystery of Napoleon's razor in a nick. This month the show tried picking its detectives from fans who write in. More like flatfeet than fancy-dans, the unpaid fans not only proved uniformly baffled, but dull. So last Sunday a group of experts from Hollywood appeared. One, Mystery Writer Harry Kurnitz, solved the mystery of the March of Death right...