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...physicist, are trying to strike germs and cancer cells dead with these short rays by producing them in body recesses by means of injections of certain chemical solutions. When x-rays activate these solutions, the chemicals throw the short ultraviolet darts into the nuclei of the cells, which thereupon perish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Necrobiotic Rays | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

...sword. And the wrath of the city arose and smote him for his impudence and his body was thrown by night into father Tiber. Far away at Numantia his brother in law, whom the Romans called Africans, heard the news and recalled a line of Homer "So perish all who do the like again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/10/1932 | See Source »

...condition of our people the natural aristocracy of talents and virtue and . . . preparing it by education, at public expense, for the care of the public concerns. . . We hope to avail the State of these talents which nature has down as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oxford Professor, Formerly at Princeton, Compares English and American Education | 10/28/1931 | See Source »

...decisive opportunity has been given to the nation to reconstruct the foundations of its life. The capitalist system has broken down even in those countries where its authority was thought to be most secure. . . . We must plan our civilization or perish. The Labor Party recognizes that the present situation calls for bold and rapid action. The decay of the capitalist civilization brooks no delay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: General Election | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...nest, lays in it from ten to 18 eggs. When these hatch, she leads the ducklings immediately down to the water. In ordinary times, duckling mortality is high. Turtles, hawks and even large fish consume many. In drought times mother & brood may find no water at all and so perish of thirst, or else they have to cross great stretches of mud, open to their natural enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Duck Moratorium? | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

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