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...Altadena, Calif. One of the first full-time professors of medicine in the U.S. (at St. Louis' Washington University), he published the first successful diagnosis of coronary thrombosis, wrote scores of wryly humorous papers on a wide variety of medical subjects (typical Dock title: The Advantage of Using Potassium Iodide Until We Have Something Better...
Blodgett's vegetables grow in narrow, shallow concrete beds which look like giant window boxes and are filled with gravel; three times a day, they are fed with water containing the necessary nutrients (nitrogen, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium). The water, drained back by gravity into an underground reservoir, is used over & over again. There are two farms, one at Chofu, 14 miles from Tokyo, the other near Kyoto. The larger installation at Chofu has 50 acres of hydroponic plots in the open and five acres under a million-dollar greenhouse, has its own ice plant and railroad siding...
...exterminate 30 million Slavs. Listening in the defendants' box, Hermann Göring was incensed. "Dirty dog! Damned traitor!" he shouted. Later, Prosecution Witness Bach-Zelewski left Nörnberg a free man; on Oct. 15, 1946, Göring mysteriously thwarted the hangman by taking cyanide of potassium in his execution cell...
...science, we do not feel that on issues involving psychiatry he is entitled to any more respect than any other layman. His suggestion that no one should write about dianetics without having experienced it seems to us like saying that no one can be an authority on cyanide of potassium unless he has eaten some...
...Clinic. Since 1888, Dr. Dock has contributed 158 papers to medical journals on an astonishing variety of subjects, the titles of which give a clue to his wry humor and firm thoroughness, e.g., The Advantage of Using Potassium Iodide Until We Have Something Better, Spelling As An Index to the Preparation of the Preparation of the Medical Student. He was one of the first full-time professors of medicine in the U.S. (at Washington University in St. Louis). As a precise, energetic professor at the University of Michigan until 1908, he was the first teacher willing to make the clinic...