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...good men bother with a training in English literature or European history. They have already been pretty well saturated in these things at home, and the scholarship system encourages it in the school. The interest has been built up so well that it can be trusted to nourish itself. The English undergraduate is infinitely better prepared for labor problems by drinking in politics at every pore than is his American equivalent by a course in American National Problems. English families sometimes cat and sleep politics, American families tend to be bored by them. I do not mean to say that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rhodes Scholar Contrasts Comparative Maturity of Oxford Freshmen With First-Year Men in Our American Colleges | 12/2/1931 | See Source »

...enzyme is a digester. Dr. Rabinowitch's enzyme apparently destroys the insulin which the patient's pancreas manufactures itself or which the patient takes as medicine. Infections, like colds, stimulate the increase of this insulin-destroying enzyme. Infections are the diabetic's greatest danger. Fats in the diet also nourish the enzyme's increase. But?and this was startling since sugar has been considered the diabetic's bane?sugar destroys the enzyme. Dr. Rabinowitch has apparently proved his point and reoriented the treatment of diabetes by giving his patients foods low in fats, comparatively high in sugar. With many cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemists at Buffalo | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...increase in the volume of business they can collectively expect to get, all the great maritime freight carriers are building newer, faster ships? Explanation: each is girding to fight with newer, more efficient weapons for a larger individual share of the bone which is admittedly not big enough to nourish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Get Out Or Go Under! | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

When the first call goes through, the event will mark not only a noteworthy technical achievement. It will be even more likely to nourish financial hopes among holders of telephone company stocks. All summer long A. T. & T. stock, usually conservative in its behavior, has been booming along in the stock market at prices up to 292, which is 23 times earnings. The hopefulness of the speculators has not been based on expected revenue from telephone conversations with Buenos Aires. The point is that A. T. & T. is in a position to take the lead in any major telephone merger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Great Dream | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Decidedly not in "agreement with Catholic doctrine" had been the Mussolini statement that "the Catholic religion was born in Palestine but became Catholic in Rome. If it had remained in Palestine it would probably have been one of the many sects which nourish in that heated atmosphere like the essence of therapeutics, and it would have nickered out without leaving a trace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Animosity in Soul | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

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