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...theory held by doctors is that infectious diseases, caught usually in the springtime, affect the pituitary gland. This is an endocrine gland the size of a big pea, located underneath the cerebrum and on about a line with the bridge of the nose. Formerly medicos supposed that it secreted the mucus of the nose. (In Latin pituita means phlegm.) Actually it controls the growth of the bones of body?those of the arms and legs. When it is pathologically oversize, it makes giants of the diseased persons; when undersize it dwarfs them. Irritated temporarily by springtime disease, it, in good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Growing Fevers | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...Zionist Experimental Agricultural Station and Oskar Theodor of the University's microbiological institute. They had spent July in the Sinai Desert; had found, as had the old marching Israelites, the white pellets of manna on the ground under tamarisk shrubs, varying in size from a pinhead to a pea. They looked closer and saw the little pills forming as yellow, sulphur-like drops on the tamarisk twigs. Other scientists, before, had noted that phenomenon and had decided that the drops oozed from tiny punctures in the bark, made by plant lice. The Hebrew University men, closer observers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Manna | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...classmates call him "Butch." He owns a "secondhand navy pea-jacket, evidently purchased with due regard for Coolidge economy." He has a "perfect schoolgirl complexion," plus an "air of perfect boredom." He keeps a scrapbook of newspaper clippings in which his name is mentioned. He receives, from schoolgirls throughout the U. S., admiring letters. So alleged the Amherst Junior Year Book of John Coolidge. The President's son, Amherst College Junior, is himself a member of the Junior Year Book editorial board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: May 30, 1927 | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...extensive program for the year has been mapped out by the officers of the Menorah Society, which will open its season's activities with a reception in Pea-body Hall, Phillips Brooks House, at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. Professor G. H. Chase '96, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will give a brief address on behalf of the University, and Professor David Gordon Lyon '01 Honorary Curator of the Semetic Museum, will speak on "President Eliot--an Appreciation." All members of the University are welcome...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MENORAH SOCIETY MAPS OUT YEAR'S ACTIVITIES | 10/13/1926 | See Source »

...terms of Immortal Beauty." The many-crowned Professor has become young, eager, full of pretty and silly courtesies. The stool for her feet, the bunch of far-brought snow-drops Like the lover of Hans Andersen's princess he will not have Perella inconvenienced by the dried pea beneath the seventh mattress. And she adores him. May she not serve? "Socks, my dear?" he answers with puckery brow. "I've not worn darned socks for years-I buy the very cheapest and whenever I see a hole in the toe, I throw them into the wastepaper basket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Happy Locke | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

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