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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neutral instead of its sworn enemy in labor's internecine war. Mayor-Elect Langlie specifically promised this neutrality but warned: "It's up to labor to clean its own house. However, labor will not be permitted to step on the toes of innocent persons in its various activities...
Yagoda, according to various testimony, attempted to poison Yezhov by having his own office, which his successor would occupy, sprayed with an atomized mercuric poison. Recent analysis of the urine of Yezhov was said to have proved that the poison has been partially effective and his health gravely affected...
...type of animal cancer-"mouse sarcoma 180"-is highly resistant to such ordinary methods of treatment as radium and X-ray therapy. In very few cases does it dry up and disappear spontaneously. More important, mouse sarcoma 180 is a reliable subject on which to test the effectiveness of various treatments for human cancer...
...Prince Loewenstein stopped at the casino to watch a roulette table in action. He was impressed by the jitters of notetakers who tried to write down not only the numbers which turned up, but their colors, their positions on the transverse and vertical rows of the betting cloth and various other group affiliations. There was hardly enough time for all this between spins of the wheel (which take place about once every 50 seconds). Prince Loewenstein decided to invent a machine which would record all the necessary factors automatically in one operation...
...past three years the holder of the award has been Robert F. Jacobsen who has conducted in collaboration with Louis F. Fieser, professor of Chemistry, an investigation of precision combustion of organic compounds and a study of various problems in phenanthrene chemistry...