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...Upon learning that an epidemic of scarlet fever caused a quarantine of schools in Genesee and Genesee Depot, Wis., whence Chicago gets several thousand quarts of certified milk each day, Chicago's Health Commissioner Herman Niels Bundesen last week summarily forbade Genesee milk to enter Chicago...
British science was impressed. Kapitza was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, first alien to be thus honored in two centuries. To house his generator, helium liquefier and other equipment, an ornate new laboratory was built in the courtyard of Cavendish Laboratory, with steel and scarlet furniture in the director's office, separate rooms for the heavy apparatus, vibration-damping walls, an Eric Gill plaque of Lord Rutherford, boss of Cavendish Laboratory, in the entrance hall. Cost: $75,000. Happy Dr. Kapitza went in as director, started investigating the magnetic resistance of substances at low temperatures. At three...
...remember a raft of things which few U. S. judges ever heard of. He must remember to wear his girdle, scarf, tippet, beaver hat, full-bottomed wig, ermine-trimmed hood & mantle on State occasions or when attending St. Paul's Cathedral. He must never wear his scarlet robe before Their Majesties the King & Queen. Yet he must mark the 24 Red Letter Days when for courtroom appearance he changes from his usual black robe to the scarlet. One day last week Sir Cyril handed down his most publicized decision since he mounted the King's Bench...
...started with loud charges by Tree-Surgeon-Governor Davey that 13 members of the squad had State jobs (TIME, Oct. 21). Pleased by the uproar, officials at Ohio State admitted the fact, while Ohio State publicists ballyhooed the team's new name, ''Scarlet Scourge," announced that requests for Ohio State's football schedule had been received from London, Paris, Alaska, Bombay and Addis Ababa. In its second game, against Drake, Ohio State made a season's record for the number of players used (47) as well as the number of points scored...
...possession, $4.000 in debt and with a wife and two children to care for, he grew increasingly melancholy, developed delusions, sometimes heard voices plotting his death. He believed that the Jews were responsible for his failures, grew increasingly violent as he denounced his young wife as a scarlet woman. On Dec. 5, 1931, in Springfield, Ill. he poisoned himself, saying, "They tried to get me; I got them first...