Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...characteristics had been known for generations) suddenly brought forth anomalies with curiously colored eyes, unreasonable wings, radically bobbed hair antennae. New species came into existence, the special marks of the X-ray were transmitted down the generations. Biologist Muller tried the effect of other agents on the germ plasm. Treatment with lead, arsenic, poisons which were known to change cells had no effect. X-rays and cosmic rays are the only forces in nature that can shake up the germ cells, changing their original plan of development, making the changes hereditary in many cases. X-rays and cosmic rays exist...
Widespread comment and criticism have followed in the wake of the Harvard-Yale English contest held simultaneously in Cambridge and New Haven last Monday. Despite varying methods of approach and treatment practically all of the writers, who have touched on this subject have emphasized two cardinal points: that insofar as it is aimed toward the propagation of scholastic enthusiasm, the Harvard-Yale experiment is thoroughly to be commended, but that those who wish to see it in a rival, or even an analogy to athletic competitions are doomed to disappointment. In this column are reprinted extracts from the Nation...
...constant changing motion of boats, they decided to give sodium nitrite a public trial. Dr. Hayden had planned a European trip; he made the liner his laboratory. During a tempestuous passage he rounded up 16 tormented travelers. After each had been given a well-known treatment (subcutaneous injections of epinephrine chloride), he started his experiment. To eight he gave three to five grains of sodium nitrite every two hours. All eight were cured after the second dose. The other eight, who received no sodium nitrite, were ill for two days...
...background for the main body of the work, which deals almost exclusively with contemporary structures. The book is divided according to the purpose of the buildings considered, the divisions being three in number: domestic and academic, ecclesiastical and monumental, and commercial. Mr. Edgell perhaps is most satisfying in his treatment of this last class--the most characteristically new and native...
...accusations that the congress had been a "steam-roller convention", seems to have won a great victory. The contract for supplying the members' pins was cancelled by a unanimous vote, the former holder of the contract having apparently been identified with the "Insurgents." It is obvious that such drastic treatment must get results, and with the delicate problem of members pins out of the way, the situation, whatever it is, certain to clear...