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These substances have been known as "tropic impulses" for many years, but their nature has been entirely unknown. It was thought by many scientists that there were special "tropic" nerves which had to do with the nourishment of tissues. Professor Parker has shown by his experiments that these "hormone like substances" run in the opposite direction from ordinary nerve impulses at the remarkably slow rate of two centimeters a day, compared to about 25 meters a second for the ordinary impulses...
Because they usually bring home more than their share of trophies, the Marines are called "pot-hunters." Accustomed to Central American rain and slime, they did not seem to mind the early bad weather, won more cups than any other unit. Equally acclimatized to tropic sun glare, they won the team match for the second consecutive year, for the eleventh time. The only branch that consistently gives the Marines a run for their money is the Infantry, which still holds the match record of 2,838 out of a possible 3,000, established...
...more than 100 Cuban business leaders, Britain's "Empire Salesman" used the American technique, served a typically hard "salesman's cocktail." ¶ Yachting on Lake Llanquihue, Chile, whence they proceeded to Lake Fria, Argentina, T. R. H. were serenaded by a Chilean Army band under a tropic moon. The band was on a barge. After moonset, as the barge was being towed home, a lake steamer ran it down. Twelve bandsmen drowned, six were saved, one body was recovered. Messages of condolence were promptly sent by Edward of Wales...
Landing at Puerto Barrios on the Caribbean, the pair made their way by train through the humid tropic zone of the Atlantic slope, on their way to the capital, Guatemala City. In their journey they were assisted throughout their stay by the officials of the United Fruit Company, who did everything to forward their researches...
...pipe on an ocean floor, to conduct seawater from the cold bottom to a shore station. Professor Claude believes that power can be generated at unheard-of cheapness by utilizing the temperature differential between the cold bottom-water and water from the ocean's surface warmed by a tropic sun. Twice he has tried and failed at Matanzas Bay, Cuba, to lower a mile-long pipe six feet in diameter into water nearly one-half mile deep. Both times, subsurface currents and pressures defeated him, sweeping away his costly apparatus (TIME, July 7 et ante). Last week, with...