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...long view of all this was last week presented by the Smithsonian Institution's Secretary Charles Greeley Abbot. Said he: "The North Central States can expect no appreciable letup in the Drought before 1938. A rain cycle is indicated by records of the water levels of the Great Lakes since 1837. . . . The cycle in the North Central farming and grazing zone has a 46-year swing, which is double the cycle for most areas on the globe. After this Drought there should not be another major dry period in the area until somewhere around...
...Institute of Experimental Biology at Berkeley. Professor Evans was the first deliberately to make giants by injecting normal animals with pituitary growth hormones. He was also first to discover Vitamin E, which is necessary for reproduction in higher animals. The past year he has been laboring, with no letup, at the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan. This week he and Mrs. Evans left Manhattan for Berkeley with a ninth, tenth, and perhaps an eleventh pituitary hormone which he and helpers have isolated...
During the second half, both teams suffered a letup. The University quintet succeeded in adding only five points to their score, while Yale under the brilliant leadership of Horwitz, who rated first in the Intercollegiate Basketball League, piled up 15 more points...
...first practice since the defeat by Princeton, the University hockey team was given no letup, but was worked steadily for an hour in the Arena yesterday afternoon. The men seemed fairly tired after their New York trip and did not put up a very spirited exhibition of hockey. Coach Winsor let E. O. Baker '17, T. H. Rice '17, and G. Townsend '17 off with about 40 minutes of work, but kept the rest of the squad for the full hour...