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...Davis has practically disqualified himself for the Democratic leadership by his conservatism", continued Dr. Buell, "and McAdoo will find it difficult to live down the association of his name with the oil scandal. Our only hope will be to find some man unknown at present, who is capable of handling one of the most difficult political situations in the history of the United States...
With this disillusioned preface, he sets out on the recital of the great fights and fighters from James Figg, master of "the Foil, Backsword, Cudgel, and Fist" to the redoubtable Dempsey. There were, in the days when the knockout to the point of the chin was still unknown, such colorful fighters as Buckhorse, "singularly unsightly," Jack Slack (the Bristol butcher), Mendoza the Jew (founder of scientific boxing, the first boxer to go on the stage), Mr. Jackson (the first "gentleman" fighter), the Belchers, the Game Chicken, and Daniel Donnelly (an Irishman) of whom it was written...
...temporary staircases could be cleared away. Instead of this gloomy miscellany, a colonial interior would be furnished with old-fashioned furniture, old books, and portraits, perhaps, of the founders of the University. Here, too, could be kept the relics of the earlier University, now for the most part buried unknown in the vaults of Widener. Massachusetts Hall might become inside, as it now is without, typical of the founders of Harvard; its rebirth and refitting would be a more significant and suitable memorial of Harvard's dead than any conceivable monument...
...Page is virtually unknown to the scientific fraternity. His name is in no book of reference. He received degrees from the University of Illinois and taught mathematics in Iowa colleges. For the last ten years he has lived in Chicago, carrying on private researches in physics. Page is sponsored by Capt. Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, of the U. S. Naval Observatory, Mare Island, Calif., Einstein's arch-antagonist (TIME, April...
Wildiers discovered over 20 years ago that the micro-organisms of yeast will grow rapidly in beer wort, but not in artificial media. He called the unknown agent of growth "bios" in a book called La Cellule. In 1916 Dr. Williams suggested that the substance previously called Vitamin B was identical with Wildiers' "bios." Extracts of some substances known to be rich in B stimulate yeast growth, and many substances have been tested for yeast stimulation as a means of measuring their B content...