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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fire spread so fast that few stories of its origin jibed. But several witnesses clung to their story of the port rear engine racing and spouting sparks. These might have ignited hydrogen valved out during the descent. Airships usually valve gas in landing. The vents are on top and the gas is so light that it usually rises straight up. The Hindenburg was slightly nose down at the instant of the fire and still moving fairly fast. Conceivably a freak breeze might have combined with the slipstream to waft a whiff of gas into engine sparks...
...Genius" will be the subject of Thursday's lecture, bringing the course, Philosophy 3, "The Function of Reason," back to its human origin, and on Saturday Professor Whitehead will lecture on an unannounced subject...
Tuberculosis Never Cured? One of the most animated controversies in tuberculosis work is over the origin of tuberculosis in adult life. Is it a new infection or is it a flare-up of disease contracted in childhood and long quiescent? Dr. Henry C. Sweany of Chicago, after autopsying 700 patients whose life-long histories he knew, was convinced that in about half of the adults who die of tuberculosis, the childhood infection flared up. In the other half, a secondary infection developed because immunity lapsed...
...everyone remembers, La Guardia rode into office on a Fusion ticket made up of three factions: the independent Democrats who were more interested in rescuing the city from its financial plight caused by the plunder of the Walker regime and the depression; a large body of voters of Italian origin; and the Republicans. There were two other entries in the field; Mayor O'Brien carried the torch for Tammany and tried to look comfortable in a top hat, but the Scabury investigations, the Walker abdication, and the forthright disavowal of their cause by Mr. Roosevelt as Governor had discredited...
This is not a question of recent origin as Conant implies, Hart warns us. Its roots go back to 1905 to Justice Holmes' dissenting opinion in "Lochner v. New York" in which he denounced a law forbidding employees in bake-shops to work more than 60 hours a week as arbitrary and capricious...