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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...central pair have to get the maid's book of applied witchcraft to restore things to normalcy. They run into special trouble obtaining a yellow-bellied spider and in learning the Babylonian word for cockatoo. They ultimately succeed but with disastrous results for another couple present when the spell is cast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/18/1938 | See Source »

Finally rescue ships found the Regina Maria, towed her back to the great Rumanian port of Constantsa. For hours special trains had been standing with steam up at Constantsa and two Bulgarian ports at which the Crown Prince might conceivably land. As Mihai stepped ashore, deathly pale from seasickness, he ordered food, drink and warm clothing for the crew, then boarded King Carol's own special train, started out for Athens. At Bucharest he stopped to tell King Carol, "Of course I was badly scared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Regina Maria in Trouble | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...meeting opened at Indianapolis on December 27, they were ready with their results but it was too late to fit them into the program. Nevertheless news of what Jauncey was doing had leaked out into the scientific world and the physicists were so anxious to hear him that a special conference was arranged. Dr. Charles Thomas Zahn of the University of Michigan, who had been independently working along the same line, was summoned by telegraph, arrived, reported that he was unable to confirm the Jauncey results. Zahn, however, had used a differently arranged apparatus. Nobel Laureate Arthur Holly Compton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hunch | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Polyneuritis is a painful and sometimes paralyzing disease characterized by widespread inflammation of the nerves. It is frequently observed in persons who are chronic alcoholics. During the past five years Dr. Norman Hayhurst Jolliffe, psychiatrist for New York City's municipal hospitals, made a special study of 1,000 cases of alcoholism in the city's dingy old Bellevue Hospital. He found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitamins for Drinks | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld. Only letters under 400 words can be printed because of space limitations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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