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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Part of this classifying will occur immediately on induction, when the personnel officer assigns the conscript to a post, and part after three months of training. The conscript will be judged on his experience and placed on the basis of this...
...Roosevelt has it, and time is of the essence." The sight of Miss Thompson's skirty cartwheel "saddened," "astounded," "shocked" readers of her column in the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune. Wrote one reader to the editors: "Good heavens! What are you thinking about to let this occur...
Despite the mountain air of Parnassus, the nine Muses probably have hacking coughs. Genius and tuberculosis, as critics and physicians have long noted, occur together oftener than coincidence accounts for. Dr. Lewis Jefferson Moorman, onetime dean of the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine, takes this thesis for granted, illustrates and defines it in Tuberculosis and Genius this week...
...stars travel alone, like the sun. Many are paired, the two members revolving around each other like the ends of a spinning dumbbell. Such bright stars as Capella, Spica, Castor, Mizar (a Big Dipper star) and Algol (the "Demon Star") are binaries (doubles). Some stars occur in groups of more than two. Astronomers estimate that one-fourth or more of all the stars in the sky are doubles or multiples. Last week astronomers heard of a pair of stellar Siamese twins...
...Zuckerman exploded uniform 70-lb. charges of H. E. in paper containers on the ground, tested the effect on mice, rats, guinea pigs, rabbits, cats, monkeys and pigeons at distances ranging from 70 to 13 ft. At 50 ft. lung damage began to occur, and at less than 18 ft. almost all the animals were killed. He printed a photograph of a pair of concussed rabbit lungs so deeply suffused with hemorrhagic blood that they looked like raw liver...