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Fortunately the facts are against these defeatists. In an article in yesterday's issue of Harvard's Military Science magazine it was stated that "there is still no gas yet devised which can penetrate in lethal quantities the U.S. Army gas mask of 1921." And if such a gas were to appear, an antidote mask would follow on its heels. Current wars are daily proving that bombing raids only serve to strengthen the morale they attempt to crush and that the enemy's armies, not his cities, are war objectives. The next Great War may be greater in scope than...
...says MacVeagh, "can it be made to serve, as so many other sciences do, the ends of those lethal arts by which men destroy themselves and their civilizations...
Physicist Lawrence and his brother, Physician John Hundale Lawrence, soon discovered that neutron rays directed at animals act with much greater force and selectivity than X-rays, are five times more lethal for tumor tissue than X-rays but in tumor-killing doses considerably easier on normal tissue...
...strain can be perpetuated because, according to the Mendelian three-to-one ratio, only one in four of the young rats manifests the lethal defect. Four of the females littered last week, and the colony now numbers about 30. Since zoologists by studying such anomalies can cast more light on the mystery of heredity transmission in the chromosomes, several U. S. scientists have expressed great interest in Dr. Dunn's new boarders. He plans soon to ship specimens to other laboratories...
DANGER-HIGH VOLTAGE. It must be realized that the plate supply of even a low-powered transmitter is a potential lethal machine...