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...that had to be developed five minutes after exposure. World War cameramen with their improved equipment remain nameless heroes. From the bottom of their portfolios were lifted such blood-curdling pictures as went into The Honor of It published last year by Brewer, Warren & Putnam as a frankly pacifist tract (TIME, March 21, 1932). Though The First World War contains half a dozen prints used in The Horror of It its totality of effect is not achieved by gore or rotting human flesh. Its awfulness results from reducing death and destruction to a commonplace...
...inherited, Professor Slye turned her attention to the specific causes of the rise of cancer in susceptible people. She says cancer is not so much a disease as it is a growth-process. She points out that whereas the highest number of human cancers occur in the digestive tract below the esophagus, the same does not hold true for beasts. Of all the mouse autopsies she has performed, about 15,000 were cancerous mice, but only about 25 had intestinal tumors. The difference probably lies in the diet. For long years her mice received the same diet (mostly fresh bread...
...writer of modern times has staked a claim to a bigger tract than Authoress Buck. For U. S. readers, at least. China is her acknowledged province; so far she has the field to herself. The Good Earth, which won her the Pulitzer Prize (1931) and made her name a household word in the U. S., was a best-seller for 24 months-not equalled by any other U. S. novel. Says Introducer Richard J. Walsh: "It seems clear that no native Chinese, however schooled in English prose, could have written of his own people as Mrs. Buck has written...
...tongue which usually goes with pernicious anemia often roughens up, if the patient absorbs plenty of Vitamin B, said Drs. William Skainline Middleton and Adolph Hutter of Madison, Wis. Eruptions of the soles and palms often are due to infected teeth, tonsils, ulcer or other disease of the digestive tract, observed Dr. George Clinton Andrews Jr. & associates of Manhattan. A normal adult has very nearly 1/20 of an ounce of sand in his lungs. Dr. William Duncan McNatty of Chicago calculated. A coal miner's lungs contain about 1/6 oz., a zinc miner's 2/5 oz., a stone...
...radio, telephone, refrigerator, automobile but even his own body, in models with beating heart, breathing lungs, circulating blood. A huge steel robot, ten feet high, will point to foods on a table and lecture metallically on food chemistry and nutrition, tracing the foods through its own illuminated digestive tract...