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...Learning curves," showing the rapidity with which the mind grasps a problem, were proved to be practically the same for animals and humans. In one respect, however, there is a great difference. A hungry animal shows more alacrity and intelligence in going through a maze than a well-fed one. With humans, the difference is negligible...
Three years of concentrated study upon the monkeys produced little in the way of results. No maze built was sturdy enough to confine them when aroused, and the use of hunger as a punishment for misdemeanors merely infuriated them...
...Booth's apparatus and methods were intricate. He had to devise a special stopcock-sealing grease that boron trifluoride would not attack, a system of magnetically controlled rods for stirring his mixtures in closed vessels. Every time he generated the trifluoride he washed the maze of tubes, flasks and stills 20 times with air which had been freed of carbon dioxide. Argon 99.9+% was repeatedly distilled for further purification and the boron trifluoride was cleaned until it showed pure in the spectroscope...
...decrees place Jews & Jewesses in the same category, lumping them with German criminals and imbeciles beyond the pale of citizenship, franchise and eligibility for State office. Complicated fractional categories for fixing the exact status of part-Jews as to political rights and marriage make the decrees a maze but a great pair of scissors is provided to cut all Gordian knots. Realmleader Adolf Hitler has overruling power in all respects. As a one-man Jew's Supreme Court he can dispense such exceptional favors as permitting Soviet Ambassador Suritz to keep an apple-cheeked, 16-year-old scullery maid...
EXPRESS TO THE EAST-A. den Doolard -Smith & Haas ($2.50). In the maze of intrigue and assassination known as Balkan politics, the activities of the Vetrechnata Makedonska Revoliutsionna Organizatsia have given rise to strange legends. Originally a conspiratorial group seeking independence for Macedonia, V. M. R. O. organized uprisings against the Turks, bombed trains, spread a net of terror that reached into most European countries. Last spring the known history of V. M. R. 0. was recounted by Stoyan Christowe in Heroes and Assassins, Last week U. S. readers were offered a translation of a remarkable Dutch novel in which...