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Contrary to popular opinion, Oxygen starvation does not seriously impair the judgment of pilots flying above 10,000 feet and cannot therefore be blamed for recent air tragedies, according to Ross A. McFarland '23, assistant professor of Industrial Research at the Fatigue Laboratory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 5/31/1938 | See Source »

...whole idea is to try and clear up the age-old question as to whether strenuous athletics will impair the heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 25 YARDLING OARSMEN HAVE HEARTS X-RAYED | 3/23/1938 | See Source »

...American Newspaper Guild. The six drew in their friends, organized the American Press Society, "free to foster the economic welfare of its members by methods which would not tend to reduce newspaper salaries to minimum standards or lead to strikes or other coercive and violent measures tending to impair the reputation and dignity of journalism as a profession." The Society would ''not commit itself ... to any other cause or movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Joiners | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...German Government," read the official text, "is ready, just as are the British & French Governments, to grant assistance to Belgium in case she should become the object of aggression or invasion. ... It confirms its determination under no circumstances to impair such inviolability & integrity and at all times to respect Belgian territory except, of course, in case of an armed conflict . . . in which Belgium should participate in military action directed against Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Kingly Statecraft | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

Sportswriters' hearts missed a beat when Son Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, after inheriting the family stable in 1930, intimated that he was less interested in racing than in playing polo. In those Depression days a Wall Street delegation actually beseeched him not to impair public confidence by giving up the country's No. 1 stable, an act which would have looked like economy in high places. Sentiment and enthusiasm for a horse named Equipoise finally determined his application to the Jockey Club for permission to race under his father's colors, "Light-blue jacket, brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Blue Jacket, Brown Cap | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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