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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lethal effect of ultraviolet light on whatever causes influenza proved exceedingly difficult to demonstrate. Bacteriologists do not know whether an ultramicroscopic germ causes that disease or whether an ultramicroscopic virus (which may be a living organism or an active chemical entity) is involved. Best means of cultivating that invisible something is in the body of a live ferret. Working with his wife, Dr. Mildred Washington Weeks Wells, and his laboratory associate, Dr. Harold W. Brown, Mr. Wells exposed ferrets to air which had been contaminated by influenza. If the germ-laden air had been exposed to ultraviolet light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Light on Disease | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

...Greene, Wisconsin dairy manager, described a new method of packing cow's milk so that it keeps fresh much longer than usual. Instead of a paper cap in the bottle's mouth, a tight metal cap with gasket is used. Just before the cap is thrust home, live steam is introduced beneath it. This condenses in the bottle top, creating a partial vacuum. Packed in this way the milk keeps fresh for 48 hours at room temperature, six weeks in a refrigerator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Milk | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

Vigdis fled with the baby, fell in with robbers, found protection at Olav's Christian court. To Ljot she said: "May you have the worst of deaths-and live long and miserably-you and all you hold dear. And may you see your children die most wretchedly before your eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Viking's Son | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

Lonely, fearing he was the only one of his kind on earth, John went off to the Scottish Highlands to think things over. There he learned to live like a savage, learned also how to add a cubit to his spiritual stature. When he came back to civilization he was able to communicate telepathically with other superior human beings like himself. Most of the older ones were in insane asylums. But gradually John collected a motley little band of superior children, took them off to an uncharted Pacific island to found a real civilization. Before they could do much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Homo Superior | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

...order that America has displayed to the world in many a decade." When the suit was filed, aggressive Commentator Carter hurried to his microphone, challenged Governor Hoffman to bring his action in ""a neutral State, the State of Pennsylvania - the State in which I work and live and whence came those spoken editorials to which the Governor takes exception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Governor v. Commentator | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

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