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...front of the tablet, surmounting the turtle-dragon, is inscribed a message from the Chinese graduates. The letters, surrounded by wolrd carvings of snakes, dragons, flowers, and mythological figures, spell out a statement of congratulations and encouragement for the University, extolling her as a main factor in the growth of the intellectual knowledge of the American people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEIRD CHINESE DRAGON IN YARD ONCE OWNED BY CH'ING DYNASTY | 9/12/1944 | See Source »

...chew your sore throat away. For septic sore throat, tonsillitis, mouth infections and throat abscesses, White Laboratories have developed a greenish, minty chewing gum, containing 3¾ grains of sulfathiazole in each "tablet." According to last week's Apothecary, a patient who chews the gum for 30 minutes to an hour gets a high concentration of the drug in his saliva (70 milligrams per 100 cc. of saliva; the concentration used in the blood in acute pneumonia is only five to ten milligrams per 100 cc.). Although the concentration is high in the saliva, very little gets into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sulfa Chew | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

With the invasion of Sicily The Tablet, official weekly of the Diocese of Brooklyn, fired the opening shot: "In looking over the list of officials being sent to guide, if not to rule, an overwhelmingly Catholic country like Italy, we note the absence of practicing Catholics. . . . It would seem not only practical and fair, but intelligent and profitable, for the United States to send some representatives who understand the religion . . . of those whom they are to direct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Battle for Italy | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...Journal of the American Medical Association, Major C. S. Linton wrote that he had used sulfathiazole tablets on four patients with Vincent's infection of the tonsils. After two days, during which each patient sucked a small sulfathiazole tablet every two hours, all "reported definite improvement within 24 hours . . . complete clinical recovery in 72 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Trench Mouth Routed | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

...manfully as foundry-man, professional prize fighter, machinist, sign painter, stonecutter and, finally, sculptor. The versatile Connor also found time to serve as a Japanese intelligence officer in Mexico. But it was with the chisel that he really made his mark-most notably with the Nuns of the Battlefield tablet located in Washington, D.C. He was bound, his friends swore, to provide a superb piece of statuary for the plinth in Cobh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Irish Story | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

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