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...preoccupation with extreme heat at the beginning of his scientific career. That was while he was studying with Henry Louis Le Chátelier in Paris. In 1901 he accomplished four things: Earned his Sc. D.; translated Le Chatelier's High Temperature Measurements with additions; published Recherches sur la constants de Gravitation; and took Suzanne Babut across the Atlantic to his home at Newton. Mass, for a New England marriage...
...recent (Jan. 12) report on Cancer, TIME said that Professor Kelly called scalpel surgery "knife-&-fork." By "knife-&-fork" sur gery he meant electrosurgery, of which he is a vigorous advocate...
Surgery, X-rays, and radium are the standbys for treatment and cure. In sur gery, of course, some sound flesh goes with the bad. The cancer surgeon can no more avoid some waste than the housewife when she reams the eyes out of potatoes...
...been for Mother Suré and her genius for taking infinite pains to make ends meet somehow, their poverty would have been more unbearable than it was. When the eldest son saved his pennies and emigrated to the U. S., the Zlotniks regarded him as an emissary sent to spy out the land, waited proudly for his summons to follow him. The summons came when he had been in Manhattan long enough to earn an instalment on their steamship tickets...
...great shock to the Zlotniks, the filthy cellar "apartment" under the "L" a worse shock still. Mother Suré wore herself out as usual trying to make and keep a decent home. Before she died of cancer she saw many a sad change come over her beloved family: her eldest son married to a wife whose family looked down on the Zlotniks, Anshel no longer cantillating the Book of Esther, but slaving in a shirt factory, her daughter Dvoyrele living in sin with an impoverished sculptor. But Death saved her from seeing the culmination of her daughter's tragedy...