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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...THERE AN AMERICAN LEFT who can give work to a young, ambitious man who refuses to take WPA charity? Have had 2 yrs. M. I. T.; writing experience; military background; can farm; active outdoors; married; no children thru lack of funds. Will take any honest work anywhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 8, 1938 | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...scale (zero for the freezing point of water, 100 for the boiling point). Scientists have not quite chilled matter to absolute zero, and never expect to. Nevertheless, researches in cryogenics (low tempera ture) are important to the study of entropy, which is defined as the degree of randomness or lack of organization in the energy distribution of a closed system. The third law of thermodynamics states that at absolute zero there must be no entropy. The particles have two kinds of motion, random motion due to the external energy of heat, and their own intrinsic motion. Thus, at absolute zero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cryogenics | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...spiritual sanatorium for the members of one of the most elusive cults in the U. S.-The Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians. It will be called Peace Haven. Mr. Schafer acquired it some months ago for $350,000, raised by Love Gifts from his disciples. "Truth Students never lack anything," he says. It will be used as a retreat "for those Students who desire Metaphysical assistance or loving care. . . ." One of the wings will be made over into Camp Peace for children. Every night a loud speaker in the reception hall will broadcast an inspirational message by telephone from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Peaceful Fraternity | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

There are four basic types of goitre- simple goitre (simple enlargement of the thyroid gland in the neck), toxic goitre, exophthalmic (popeye) goitre, and cancer of the thyroid. Nobody knows the specific cause of any of them. Pathologists know that it has something to do with lack of iodine, hormone imbalance or germs. The difficulty is especially perplexing in the case of exophthalmic goitre. This is the most dramatic type, giving the victim's features an expression of terror, his heart palpitations, and his disposition the fidgets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tonsillitis & Goitre | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...says: "The study of vitamins] may some day be regarded as rivaling in importance the discovery of micro-organisms as causative factors in disease. . . . It would be misleading to suppose that thiamin is the only vitamin which possesses a universal or nearly universal function in living cells. . . . [But] the lack of no other accessory substance leads to so early, so profound and so universal disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: B1 | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

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