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...Such a science builds the large out of the small, resurrects a greater mankind out of misery and suffering, transmutes truth into happiness, takes the patient plodding of the laboratory worker and converts it into human smiles and laugh ter." The A. A. A. S. confirmed Dr. Schwitalla's enthusiasm by electing Princeton's Biologist Edwin Grant Conklin to be president year after next. Among the reports which years hence may contribute to a "greater mankind'' were the following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Greater Mankind | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

...interest, Regent Tafari in 1926 shamed and reproved white men thus: "We should never have suspected that the British Government would come to an agreement with another government regarding our Lake Tana!" Ethiopia quietly won the first League round then & there, causing Italy and Britain to drop the mat ter, much as the Hoare-Laval Deal was to be dropped nearly a decade later with a crash heard around the world (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: Man of the Year: Haile Selassie | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

This present first crew will race next week with each of the other boats in a number of three-quarter mile races. Af- ter these races Whiteside believes a number of inexperienced men may go into a revised first crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UPPERCLASS, FRESHMAN OARSMEN IN FULL SWING | 10/29/1935 | See Source »

...business knowing what it is all about. If the doctor hands a patient a prescription written in the best medical Latin, it is the duty of aforesaid patient to hotfoot it to the closest apothecary shop: have same duly compounded as the Great Man has ordained; and take T.I.D. [ter in die, "thrice a day"] strictly according to directions. Not his to reason why. His but to get well if Mother Nature is willing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 26, 1935 | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

Foursomes--Berry and Schwab (W) defeated Lardner and Brannigan (H) 1 up; Hunter and Sibley (H) defeated Por- ter and Dodge (W), 2 and 1; Enos and Bellows (H) defeated Swan and Huston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Williams Loses to Varsity Golfers at New Haven, 7-2 | 5/4/1935 | See Source »

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