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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this statement, Anatomist Kappers cast doubt on current notions about nicotine. Many U. S. doctors have contended and often hoped to prove that smoking does no harm. In Newark, N. J., five children of the Fillimon family have been smoking full-sized cigars since the age of two. The oldest, Frank, 11, now averages five cigars a day. All of these children appear healthy, go to school regularly, get good grades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Kappers Cures | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

Miss Lloyd George's political debut was balked by Colonel Lawrence Williams who had expected to be allowed to stand for Anglesey and wrathfully declared: "I've been stabbed in the back! . . . Untold harm has been done to Liberalism by the unfair tactics of certain people in supporting a certain young woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: Parliament's Week: Jun. 4, 1928 | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...raised in a tuberculous environment, nursed by tuberculous mothers. Mortality has been cut down from the old average of 26% during the first year to 1%. The immunity so far has lasted four years and there were no deaths reported during that time. The vaccination itself is reported harm less, but it must be administered within the first ten days of life. Last week the French Academy of Medicine buzzed with attack and innuendo. Professor Lignieres of Buenos Aires had come out flat-footedly against B. C. G., claiming that tuberculous infection could result from inoculation with the vaccine. Three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tuberculosis & Babies | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...exempt kerosene from the tax, which, however, will still bear on gasoline. Well pleased at the flurry caused by his announcement, Mr. Churchill added: "His Majesty's Government have no fear that motorists will evade the tax on gasoline by attempting to use kerosene. They would do more harm to their engines than to the Exchequer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Churchill Into Bed | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...majority of the professors of English Literature, fearful lest their pupils disgrace themselves, deplored it. Said one Yale professor: "I have troubles enough without letting the public gape at the results of my lectures." Said another Harvard professor: "It may not do any harm, but I do not approve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvard v. Yale | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

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