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...site of ancient Asine (Bay of Messenia, Greece). His music is in his own vocal cords. His athletic interests and abilities were demonstrated by his work on the Swedish Olympic Committee, and last winter when he plunged into a Stockholm canal and rescued a drowning U. S. jack-tar (TIME, Feb. 15). His religious militancy had scope last year in organizing and conducting the World Church Conference at Stockholm (TIME...
Minx and Jack-Tar...
Leaving aside the defects of Mr. Merritt's power as a conjurer, the reader who is in search of an antidote to the present school of literary photography will doubtless enjoy "The Ship of Ish, tar." It is an adventurous glimpse at at a forgotten civilization which the author has convincingly re-created. There are to be sure, dull parts in the story, and at times the narrator loses himself and his reader in a labyrinth of suggestive but unintelligible passages. A glance at the jacket, however, is reassuring. There is no mention of subtle satire or of involved philosophical...
Then his enemies conceived the brilliant idea of denouncing him for his intimacy with some of the scoundrels who launched the French Panama Canal swindle. The tar of that brush of infamy stuck sufficiently to cost him the votes which he needed to stay in the Chamber...
...name to be attached to an announcement: He and his colleagues believed that they had isolated the cancer germ ... A minute disturbance in a ray of light revealed by the most intricate methods of microscopy ever devised... Highly satisfactory experiments upon mice, in whose tissues, inflamed with coal tar, the injected cancer organism produced both sarcoma and carcinoma*. . . Experiments in far too early a stage to warrant any gabble about a cure for cancer . . . Further report to be issued shortly...