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...small local exhibition, in Loughborough, in Britain's Leicestershire, but the critics agreed that it had one really notable painting. Figure 8, Skegness, the picture they singled out, showed a whirl of bright-colored roller-coasters against a sea blobbed with boats. Wrote one critic: "A fine specimen of modernism by the Barrow-on-Soar artist, Thomas Warbis ... A study of it will be all the more interesting in view of the present controversy in the art world concerning a famous artist's [Sir Alfred Munnings] attack on modernism." Added the Loughborough Echo: "Mr. Warbis' [picture] will...
...report on allergic children [TIME, April 18] provokes serious reflection. After over 30 years of active medical practice I can say with utmost conviction that the specimen cases cited in the report which you quote are evidently children who have been poorly brought up, either by ignorant and indifferent parents or, more likely, by mothers who regard themselves as "progressive"-young ladies who swear by Freud and know all there is to know about inhibitions, complexes and the subconscious ego. Pity their poor children...
...test now looks simple, but Dr. Richardson, 52, has been working for five years to develop it. It is based on the long-known fact that the amount of the female hormone, estrone, in the urine increases greatly after conception. First, Dr. Richardson puts a specimen of urine in a special double-barreled test tube he invented. Then he gets rid of other hormones (progesterone derivatives), which might interfere with the test, by mixing in chloroform and sodium hydroxide. The fluid containing estrone rises to the top. This fluid is put in two other test tubes and a different chemical...
...biology laboratories of this institution contain some 33,000 well preserved animal specimens, the average weight of a specimen being 8.26 ounces. Using present meat portions in the Dining Halls as the basis for my calculations, I find that there is enough meat in the laboratories for 152,800,000 meals, or a sixty-six year supply. Even after doubling the portions, which would be only humane, there still remains enough meat for a thirty-three year supply. Using this preserved meat is the essence of husbandry. The jars, now freed of their contents, could be melted down and utilized...
...case with the composed dignity that its important place in Egyptian society had justified; a mummy of the same breed (one of thousands of such embalmed animals found in the Nile Valley), bound into a thin, dusty cylinder with only the ears and sunken face visible; a 15th Century specimen crouched and grinning above a terse warning: "Beware of cats, which lick in front and scratch behind...