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...blood are taken from a finger or an ear lobe and centrifuged to remove all red blood cells. Then the clear serum is mixed with several drops of the antigen, a witches' brew of benzoin (a resin from Java or Sumatra), cholesterol (alcohol which occurs in bile), scarlet red (a dye), plain salt water, and alcoholic beefheart extract. If syphilis antibodies are present in the blood, coarse particles develop in the colorless fluid, and clumps of red granules appear around the edges of the mixture. Since the reaction is clearly visible to the naked eye, no microscope is needed...
...classes pupils be taught how the sex impulse and its control affects the nervous system. In physical education courses they should learn 1) that direct sex experience is not necessary for health, 2) that adolescents can find other outlets for their energies. By frank discussion of literature (e.g., The Scarlet Letter, Idylls of the King), they may be enlightened about sex as a motive in general human conduct. Sex may raise its head in girls' home economics classes: "The teacher has an opportunity to bring up . . . the effects produced on the feelings by color and line . . . and the responsibilities...
True deafness can be caused only by injury to the inner ear, or to the auditory nerve. Inherited structural defects account for a large proportion of these cases; syphilis, scarlet fever, meningitis, measles, for many others. Skull fractures and the force of violent explosions may injure the cochlea or the auditory nerve...
...Professor: "Coach Schmidt of Ohio spent last Friday duck hunting. Let's hope he has good shooting the day before the Scarlet play Chicago...
...Bastille Day, month ago, down the Champs-Elysées rolled one of the most blazingly colorful military parades ever seen. There were white-plumed Republican Guards in scarlet and blue; bear-skinned, red-coated, white-cross-belted British Guardsmen; rakish, bereted Chasseurs à pied (Blue Devils); smart ski-shouldering Chasseurs Alpins; bearded Foreign Legionnaires; burnoosed Spahis with shoulder-slung rifles on Arabian ponies or brandishing lances on racing dromedaries; turbaned brown Madagascar riflemen; sun-helmeted white Colonial scouts; fezzed black Senegalese sharpshooters; earthshaking, ear-shattering tanks-all ablaze with the armed might of Imperial France. In the reviewing stand...