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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...study showed that three teaspoons of mineral oil a day cuts in half the human body's ability to absorb carotene, which is converted to vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency causes night blindness, various skin and internal disorders. What's more alarming, fine droplets of mineral oil can go through the intestinal wall and reach the liver and lymph nodes, where, doctors suspect, they may cause dangerous lesions. Autopsies have revealed such droplets in patients' tissues...
...Author. Peter Demianovich Ouspensky died last month in England, at 69, in the private obscurity wherein he had always preferred darkly to shine. His London solicitor believed that Ouspensky was "the greatest man alive." Sentiments like that of the solicitor were once held by various impressionable readers of A New Model of the Universe and Ouspensky's earlier Tertium Organum, a massive work of esoteric philosophy that Ouspensky wrote in Russia before World War I and first published in English in the U.S. in 1920. Moscow-born Ouspensky was at that time living in Constantinople. The late Viscountess Rothermere...
Immediate objective of the Choir was to lend Yuletide atmosphere to an impending House Christmas play. While rehearsing the traditional hymns and narrative songs, including "White Christmas," the Dunces began to loosen up and let go, and soon found themselves at various Dunster and other House dances...
These replies ranged from that of President Charles Seymour of Yale who refused to give information to any but University officials, to detailed accounts of various medical and sex education programs...
...only concrete suggestion so far advanced in committee discussion is the idea that the Hygiene Department set up a University pharmacy to sell medicines at cost to students. Also under discussion were various plans for getting estimates as to the quality of service the Hygiene Department of offering...