Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mind, that is one of the most striking testimonials to the progress of the idea of international unity that has ' yet taken place. Here was a matter admittedly outside the cognizance of the League as to which the British Government was none the less ready to give explanations, because it desired to pay tribute to the international authority and position of the League Council. So far from the authority of the League being flouted, as some have ignorantly suggested, it has been openly and emphatically endorsed...
...city. Automobile drivers were told to honk frequently, to use the full power of their headlights. The only effect was to light up the fog without penetrating it and to cause such a din by the honking as to force the usually voluble French into an exhausted silence. None the less, only a few minor accidents from collision were reported...
...spurred many a feeling gentleman to dash off a letter of protest to an editor. Quite rightly. For however luridly exaggerated by popular imagination, the fact that it is occasionally necessary to cause suffering in one animal in order to save many men from like anguish is none the less to be deplored. Instructional vivisection is at best but a clumsy means of imparting surgical knowledge. The experiment can be followed by only a limited number of students; it must inevitably be somewhat hurried. Long have medical men sought for some instrument of instruction between a live guinea...
...chemical substance containing a certain amount of gold. The idea of gold as a therapeutic agent has always had a peculiar fascination for both the public and the physician, so that "gold cures" have been available for practically every type of ill from which mankind may suffer. Unfortunately, none of these "cures" has thus far stood the test of scientific observation. The method devised by Prof. Molgaard has been tested on animals in his laboratories to a rather limited extent. His work has been conducted in a scientific manner, but it is impossible to state from the evidence thus...
...business he gave attention to the minutest details of every enterprise. His adroitness in pickiing up stray pins was so startling that his office boys were instructed to see that there were none about when important conferences pended, since his zeal for pin-picking distracted his mind from other topics. Twelve years after the death of his first wife (née Elizabeth Hamilton Morgan), he married Eleanor Robson, actress. Her wedding cut short the engagement of her theatrical company. With characteristic generosity, Mr. Belmont paid every member of the troupe a year's salary...