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Since lice are well known to transmit typhus, Santiago went in for city-wide delousing. Theatres were disinfected every night. So were dance halls, until Santiago authorities reflected that slow, intimate Chilean tangoes would be just right for spreading typhus. Abruptly all dance halls, billiard parlors and swimming pools in the capital were closed...
...well as they do. In courses conducted by the more well known professors there is seldom any relaxation in standards, but during the summer because of the fact that study must be intensive and any syperfious material glossed over more that ever it requires a mind that can transmit its own message to the students...
...effects of the Magnetic Pole and Northern Lights on his plane's radio and direction-finder. In the latter chore-radio testing-he had the valuable help of his wife who has a "better sending fist" than Lindbergh himself. She holds a radio operator's license, can transmit 20 words per minute...
...generations. Two individuals, both of them entirely resistant to cancer, will breed children also free from cancer. An individual susceptible to the disease, when bred to a resistant, will have exempt children. But, because one parent was a potential cancer subject, the children although themselves exempt can transmit it to their offspring-if they mate with susceptible persons. On the other hand, should they marry cancer-resistant persons, results of such unions will also be exempt. But before you can do any of this with any degree of assurance you first must have histories of the families' antecedents- what...
...tycoonish hero, the curtain has not been up long before alert spectators realize that the spectacle will be unspectacular. Authoress Bentley succeeds, however, in transfiguring her average man into a man-sized hero. Says she: "Why . . . should not one of the crowd, one of those who maintain, those who transmit, have a standard biography written for him with as much justification as one of the celebrities, one of those who improve?" Carr makes her question superfluously rhetorical. Like Inheritance (TIME, Sept. 12), Carr is a novel of Yorkshire, its background the textile industry of the West Riding.* Hero Carr...