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...downfall of this demigod is the inexorable theme of Parade's End. Christopher, despite his incomparable powers (or perhaps because of them), is a man saturated with humility, pity and chivalrous principles. With a world that is half gone to the dogs he will make not the smallest compromise; so the furious world sets out to hunt him down...
Approximately 3,540 upperclassmen will file through Memorial Hall today, and when registration is over the University will have its smallest undergraduate body since the war. The expected 4,700 enrollment figure--which includes the 1,160 freshmen who checked in last Thursday--represents a registration of 200 men less than last September...
...virus of poliomyelitis, one of the smallest disease-causing organisms, is less than a millionth of an inch long. Trying to follow this minute invader as it attacks the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord has long been a baffling problem for polio researchers. Last week two Yalemen, Drs. Joseph L. Melnick and John B. LeRoy, told how they had used the electron microscope to study this microcosmic warfare-with surprising results...
...reason for the stiff bidding was that this year's crop is expected to be 37% smaller than last year's, and the smallest on record. On top of that, the armed services, which bought up some 30% of the brooms manufactured in World War II, were back in the market again. For housewives this meant about 40% fewer corn brooms next year and 10-to-30% higher prices...
...restricted diets do not get enough copper into their systems. For such cases he would like to see careful medical testing of a diet containing copper-rich items like liver and seafood. But no one, however grey, should try taking his copper straight. In any but the smallest amounts, copper is a cumulative poison...