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...Cancer may be started by syphilis germs, certain viruses and tapeworms, or by application to the skin of simple chemicals . . . and coal tar substances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Cancer may be started by syphilis germs, certain viruses and tapeworms, or by application to the skin of simple chemicals (arsenic, chloride of zinc) and coal tar substances. But continued irritation does not cause cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Conclusions | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...vitamin results in malnutrition of the embryo and abortion in the female, destruction of germ cells in the male, muscular paralysis in the young. Isolation of Vitamin E (alpha tocopherol) from natural oils is difficult and expensive, but last winter Chemist Paul Karrer of Switzerland synthesized it from coal tar. Dr. Evans promptly fed alpha tocopherol to sterile rats, and this week he told the International Physiological Congress at Zurich, Switzerland, that all 200 of the rats gave birth to average-sized litters. Synthetic Vitamin E is just as strong as the natural product, does not seem to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitamin News | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

Last week 25,000 delegates and visitors gathered in Birmingham for the 23rd quadrennial conference of the Southern church. With unification the first item on the agenda, many a delegate-including Senator Carter Glass-sounded off on the Negro issue. But they could not make the tar baby stick. The merger was adopted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Methodists United | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...Sulloway will play in the number four position against Bill Rood twin brother of the Tar Heels' number one man. Langdon Gilkey will play Frank Farrell who has lost only two matches in three years of varsity competition down south. Chet Legg will face Charlie Ride of North Carolina. John Palfrey will probably play doubles on the Crimson team...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Team Faces N.C. Invaders Here | 5/3/1938 | See Source »

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