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...moot whether there be divinities...
...bombing planes. The 15,45 2-ton Espana was launched 24 years ago, but she had been recently fitted with new German anti-aircraft guns. Watchers on shore could see them go into action, white woolly puffs bursting all round the circling bombers. What happened next was a splendid moot point for naval historians. Loyalists say one of their air bombs plopped straight down the Espana's funnel. Rebels insist that the Espana struck a floating mine. In any case, up she blew and in 45 minutes sank by the stern to the bottom of the Bay of Biscay...
Theory. Germs of the diseases which artificial fever benefits die in the high heat. But whether the heat kills them directly or whether the heat stimulates germicidal substances in the body is moot among doctors. In that fog they stand close to medieval predecessors who cured paresis by running threads, horse hairs or bristles (collectively called setons) under the scalp and under the skin of the chest. The setons, medieval theorists argued, caused a flow of "laudable pus" from the chest and head...
...Hampshire took the measure of the Harvard and Dartmouth Harriers in the Triangular cross country Moot yesterday afternoon by the score of 37 to Harvard's 47 and the Green's 52. At the same time the Crimson Freshmen won out 31 to 41 for Dartmouth and 50 for New Hampshire...
...taken in the particular instance; the larger issue, however, transcends both Mr. Paley and the Honorable Henry, and presents itself to the Federal Radio Commission and the legislature which passed the Communications Act of 1934. Broadcasting is too important a thing to be left in the limbo of moot. In the hands of a political mountebank it is a tool that can be insidiously dangerous to honest government...