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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presence of a transplanted testis." It was discovered that the rate at which the tablets were absorbed ranged from 2% a month for the female hormones to 25% for the male hormones. Best way to insure adequate absorption, said Drs. Deanesly and Parkes, was to use a number of smaller, tablets rather than one large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Under the Skin | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...life he writes about. In the Galapagos Islands, in Bermuda or on the Gulf of California; everything reminds Naturalist Beebe of the teeming variety of life and the consistency of its patterns of struggle; in the stomach of a sea bird he finds a half-digested fish, with a smaller fish in its stomach, while mud from the bottom of the sea turns out to be writhing with worms, crabs, starfish, urchins, snails, serpent-stars and heretofore unknown species. Not his best book, Zaca Venture presents the most crowded world so far, since it touches on everything from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crowded World | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...considerably affected by winds. Their rates of drift are variable. Two types of tongues have been discovered: 1) dry, usually coming from the north; 2) wet, coming from the south. A large tongue may stretch for 1,500 miles across the U. S., and 20 or 30 smaller streaks may be observed in one day, forming a roof over the entire continent. Plotted on a meteorological map they resemble a mass of partly coiled snakes. Although the greater area of each tongue remains at uniform specific humidities, the extremities tend to undergo changes. At the southern ends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wets v. Drys | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

During the Spring recess the Glee Club is making a trip to Chicago to sing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; concerts are being arranged at many of the large cities between here and there. Throughout the year there will be also numerous smaller concerts in and about Boston, such as the concert with the Smith College Glee Club on December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB PLANS NEW TRIALS THIS WEEK IN SEVER 11 | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...less than it once was, for "persons with incomes equivalent in purchasing power to between 4,000 and 10,000 1929 dollars have become a much larger proportion of the population since 1916, and those with incomes equivalent to $50,000 or more have become a smaller proportion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Concentrated Wealth | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

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