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...mile relay, the varsity will again race against Yale and Princeton, plus unknown quantity, Colgate. As injury to Al Wills has forced a substitution of Jim Cairns in the quartet which defeated Yale and Princeton in the K. of C. Meet. Mike Robertson will lead off, with Cairns second. French Anderson will run the third leg, with Dick Wharton anchoring...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Cohen and Dillard to Meet in BAA; Two-Mile Relay Team Seeks Mark | 1/27/1956 | See Source »

...into historical ecstasies. "Virginia," said he, "with names for every chapter of American history . . . Virginia, where America's history and philosophy were born . . . Surely this stern and determined gesture from the South gives pause to those who would impose on our people a condition intolerable to them and unknown to the Constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rebel Yells | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...Professor Jaime H. Arjona, runs a story from El Capellán de la Virgen (The Virgin's Chaplain), reprinted in the current American Psychologist. No clearer exposition of the principle of conditioned reflexes has ever been written. As every Russian schoolboy knows, reflex conditioning was unknown until it was discovered by Russian Physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936). El Capellán de la Virgen, a play about the life of Saint Ildefonso (606-667), Archbishop of Toledo, was written by the Spanish Dramatist Lope de Vega about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Cough for Pavlov | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

Doctors have found that-for unknown reasons-radiation victims who vomit almost immediately after exposure are almost sure to die, and those who do not vomit at all are almost certain to survive. This fact led Utah's Pharmacologist Herbert L. Borison to conclude that vomiting may hold the key to the process that causes death from radiation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Radiation Mystery | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...Hallett turned in the best time for the Crimson entrants, 1:05 for the course. Judges recorded only the first five contestants, so the exact positions of Crimson skiers is unknown. Charles Lawrence of the Mt. Mansfield Ski Club won the meet with a time of 57 seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Team Races At Mad River in Season's Opener | 1/17/1956 | See Source »

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