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...Wendell M. Stanley of the Rockefeller Institute recently crystallized a virus. Since crystallization is a distinctive peculiarity of nonliving substances, Dr. Stanley's work indicates that viruses are proteins which, while lifeless, lie very close to the margin of life...
Tragic commentary on Negro-baiting carried to one logical conclusion was the gruesome photograph, added to point the exhibit's moral, which showed the lynched and lifeless body of Negro Rubin Stacy of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., suspended from a tree around which stand neatly dressed young white children in snickering, fascinated horror...
...week the new American Ballet worked hard, enlivened the operas in which it appeared, won praise partly because it represented such an improvement over the stodgy, lifeless dancing which went on at the Metropolitan under the Gatti-Casazza regime. The new U. S. organization gave its first substantial demonstration after the Hänsel und Gretel performance, presented comely ballerinas, several of them highly talented. Outstanding performances were given by Anatole Vilzak, once of the Russian Imperial Ballet, and young William Dollar, who has the most spectacular technique of any male dancer now appearing in public. Unfortunately the ballet...
English A. has always been regarded by those unfortunate enough to take it as a lifeless burden, and the present attempt of University Hall to reduce the membership in this intellectual chain gang shows a liberality which will be dully appreciated by incoming Freshmen. In the past the only ones to escapade the penalty were those prep school students who had achieved an honor grade in their College Board examination in English, this system being a distant discrimination against that large group entering under the highest seventh plan...
...Waterloo legs, Sir Bernard thought, had been lifeless only twelve hours. When railway attendants reported that three lackadaisical young men had loitered around the car in which the legs were found before the train left a suburban station, Scotland Yard announced that they are being "sought for questioning." As in Brighton Trunk Murder No. 1, when found, the Waterloo legs were wrapped in newspapers which had absorbed most of the blood, then encased in brown paper...