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...primary causes of disease [is] a mechanical maladjustment ['osteopathic lesion'] of some sort which . . . may be found in a joint, muscle, ligament or other tissue," has been that no osteopath was ever able to produce a lesion in any creature by a scientifically impeccable experiment. Osteopath Louisa Burns of South Pasadena, Calif, claimed to do so, but could not convince sceptics. Dr. MacDonald appeared at Chicago last week with X-ray and documentary proofs that he had made female rats incapable of bearing children simply by whacking their spines out of shape. He performed his experiments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Backs & Barrenness | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...Bronson Alcott? Few U. S. memories are long enough to answer. Fifty years ago a name to conjure with, he is known now, if at all. as the father of Louisa May Alcott, best-selling author (Little Women, Little Men). It is Biographer Shepard's well-presented thesis that Bronson Alcott is one of America's almost-forgotten great men. An ably-written, authoritative book, Pedlar's Progress deserves every penny of its $5,000 prize (Little, Brown Centenary), will fit snugly on the same shelf with Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Transcendentalist | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

Before the panel of three jurists which included also Livingston Hall, assistant professor of Law and Charles B. Rugg, member of the State bar, was the case between Louisa Fitzgerald, plaintiff and the American Delivery Company, a Corporation, defendant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUARTER FINAL HELD IN AMES COMPETITION | 3/3/1937 | See Source »

...kingdom of Westphalia. In 1810 nearly all of continental Europe west of the borders of Austria (and some besides) was Napoleon's or dependent on Napoleon. He made his brother king of Spain, his favorite generel king of Naples. He divorced Josephine and married the Archduchess Maria Louisa, he made his baby son the King of Rome...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 12/4/1936 | See Source »

...fact that he was once married to a lady who was once married to John Reed, a U. S. Communist buried in a niche of the Kremlin at Moscow, and with the surprising observation that Mr. Bullitt's late mother was a half-Jewess whose maiden name was Louisa Gross Horwitz. Imperturbably commented Cousin Logan Bullitt last week in Philadelphia: "I have always had a very definite impression that Bill's mother was part Jewish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Twelve-Year Ambassador | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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