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...magic dye which made them glow at night. The company paid a high price for the paint. When a few drops were left in the glass after the brushes were twirled and pointed, supervisors complained. The girls were taught to point and clean the brushes with their lips. Thirteen died. Last week the U. S. Radium Corporation was defendant in a suit for a million and a quarter dollars filed by one Raymond H. Berry, lawyer, in behalf of five more female hirelings of the corporation, sick, according to Lawyer Berry and many doctors, unto death. For these five there...
...Thirteen games have been played during the season, four of which Harvard has won,--those against Dartmouth, Brown, Springfield, and Williams. The other encounters were lost by more or less decisive scores...
With a record of thirteen victories and only three defeats, these at the hands of powerful nines, the Villanova baseball team travelling up from Pennsylvania for contests with several local aggregations, will clash with the Harvard diamond forces on Soldiers Field at 5 o'clock this afternoon. The late starting time, the H. A. A. announced, is an experiment to see if more spectators will be able to watch the contest...
...Mobilization of all Government, university, laboratory facilities for a concerted attack on disease was predicted by Dr. William Charles White of the U. S. Public Health Service at Washington. For six years scientists have been studying a pure culture of a single strain of tubercle bacillus, chemically, bacteriologically, physically. Thirteen trillions of the little bugs, over three gallon jars full, have been accurately analyzed; ten different substances have been isolated from them...
...since only the graphic scenes can be utilized, the system does not work. For instance, if a scene from the Continental Congress is shown, how is it to portray the strifes and the animosities and the high currents on feeling that crossed each other as each representative of the thirteen different states clamored for the specific rights of his own territory? How are the great arguments pro and con the freeing of the slaves to be expressed through the medium of sight? Obviously, such qualities as sight cannot reproduce must perforce be omitted from such a history. In science, where...