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...makes an arresting picture-one that French, Roman Catholic Dr. Carrel is romantic and mystic enough to appreciate - two men, one an ageless seer, the other a young and devoted inventor, sitting on two rocks in the middle of a sea, talking, planning ways to prolong the life and end the ills of mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Men in Black | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Played like roulette, with the mouse replacing the white ball, the game, called Cardette, is the brainchild of 28-year-old Gambling Dealer Everett MacDonald. Cardette, says Inventor MacDonald, requires no bait, can't be fixed, pays better odds than roulette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Hybrid Game | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...Those who know the most about the disease are less likely to be infected," said Dr. Hinton, who is the inventor of the Hinton Test for Syphilis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HINTON URGES BETTER CARE OF SOCIAL ILLS | 5/17/1938 | See Source »

...Northwestern University psychologists last week recommended this device: a bed pad with negatively charged wires on one side, positively charged wires on the other, a sheet of cloth between. When the cloth becomes damp, it completes a weak electric circuit, causes a bell to ring and wake the wetter. Inventor of this ingenious device was Psychology Professor John Jacob Brooke Morgan. 49, bachelor of divinity, twice-married father of two. Chicago and Evanston, Ill. orphans were thus trained to cease their nightly nuisances, by making their dormitories sound like fire stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bed-Wetters Belled | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...Hinton is the inventor of the Hinton Test which is coming into wide use in the detection of syphilis. he is connected with the Department of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene and also the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology of the Harvard Medical School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hinton Will Lecture | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

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