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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interpenetrate them. In earlier operations Voronoff had failures because the transplanted portions were too thick and died before they could knit up with the human glands. Within a few weeks the new tissue becomes continuous with the old, and its hormones begin their beneficial flow. Blood pressure diminishes, sight improves, metabolism is intensified, muscles regain their spring, and new hair grows. Voronoff told the surgeons that a great park is being constructed in Africa under French auspices for the breeding of chimpanzees and other apes and monkeys. The supply of animal glands is too limited at present to accommodate those...
...deep grass on the 18th hole at Inwood, Jones won, in addition to the open golf championship, one of the greatest " feasts of honor" ever heaped on a Georgia table and a resolution of appreciation from the Georgia legislature. Only was there an echo from Alaska missing. Possibly the sight of Hurricane Gulch, Alaska, persuaded Mr. Harding that bunkers are trivial affairs after all. "But," protest the politicians, " he should respect the golfing voters. There are only 54,000 voters in Alaska-mostly icemen! " " Yes," replies the poor golfer struggling wearily around a crowded Sunday course, " there are a million...
...Soviet War Minister, although advocating a cultural campaign, does not lose sight of a fighting campaign. He writes...
...watching one of the 57 Hollywood varieties of "daughters'' go straight to the Nether Octopus of Shame, via the bathing-revel and flask-party route or seeing one of them won away from rouge, the Ritz and high-hattiness in general by kittens, tame canaries, rural atmosphere and the sight of a pair of baby-rompers. But The Love Piker temporarily swings the weight of ennui in the latter direction. Hope Warner (Anita Stewart) was a frightful snob. She broke the speed laws, owned a Pekinese, and when rescued by the stalwart Martin Van Huisch first from the hoosegow...
Pavloff's name is best known to the Western world for his classic demonstration of the neurological basis of the digestive process in dogs. A normal animal, if hungry, shows increased flow of saliva and the digestive juices at the sight or smell of food. By a simple surgical operation, Pavloff brought the duct of a dog's salivary gland to the surface of the cheek and measured the flow under stimulus of food. At regular feeding times a bell was rung, and after several repetitions it was found that the sound of the bell alone, without food...