Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cynic Dr. Francis Carter Wood, director of Manhattan's Institute of Cancer Research: "Nothing in Dr. Connell's results, as published, contains anything which could not have occurred spontaneously. All of the things he described we see every day in the cancer wards. It is useless to speak of a cure for cancer on treatments running only over a few months. Five years is the established minimum time for a cure to be regarded as a cure...
...There are many instances of cancer coming back after eight or ten years. Medical men do not generally speak or write about positive results in cancer until the minimum of five years has elapsed." Nonetheless, last week the Kingston clinic of the Hendry Connell Research Foundation, Ltd. had 266 active customers, attended by seven doctors on the regular staff and three professors called into consultation from excited Queen's University. And students piling into the small city for the University's first semester had unexpected difficulty finding lodgings for themselves...
Both Over African Jungles and Speak to the Earth are frivolous works compared with Africa Dances. Geoffrey Gorer, 30-year-old English writer, traveled from Dakar through French West Africa to Dahomey and the Gold Coast, with Feral Benga, famed Parisian Negro dancer, who wanted to stage a Negro ballet. The travelers saw some extraordinary native dancing, including the performance of adagio dancers who danced with children and knives, throwing knives that seemed to pass through the children in midair. But most of Africa Dances is devoted to realistic appraisals of native culture, political and economic conditions, colonial administration...
Charles Ceatre Professor from the University of Paris, will speak on "The Rise of American Poetry," tomorrow afternoon, at 8 o'clock, in Sever 11. This lecture is open to the public...
Signer Fressolini will speak in Italian on the man who was the prototype of all modern political basses. Machiavelli was the first pragmatist in polities and many believe, the man whom Mussolini take as his model...