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...years the Pittsburgh Platform has stood unchanged. To the conference members who, wearing no such beards of yarmulki as do their Orthodox brothers, looked much like a convention of doctors or dentists, Rabbi Samuel Goldenson key-noted in the Platform's vein: Let Jews beware of any current secular movement which tends to consider Judaism a civilization rather than a religion. But Rabbi Philipson declared the time had come to re-examine Reform Jewry's credo, see how it stacked up under modern conditions. And the conference took the first step, after stormy debate and cries of "subterfuge...
Richest strike in Nevada's fabulous Corn-stock Lode was made in March 1873 when the Consolidated Virginia mine opened a silvershot vein 54 ft. thick. Before it was played out the vein yielded $190,000,000 in pure bullion and made a onetime Irish immigrant clerk one of the richest men in the greatest get-rich-quick era in U. S. history. Like many another bonanza king, John William Mackay beat a quick & gaudy path to the capitals of Europe but he did leave an enduring monument to his amazing energy-Postal Telegraph...
...lady guppy. No ichthyologist would call this the first. This is a common occurrence in domesticated tropical fish. About five years ago, when the writer was 17, he did this twice, once on a guppy, once on a swordtail. You will probably receive many letters in this same vein from other amateur gynecologists. The instrument used in the case of the writer's fish was the split fragment of a razor blade...
...human blood by the addition of substances to keep it in a clear, unclotted, fluid condition. Thus gallons of blood may be accumulated from donors, kept in a refrigerator until needed for a transfusion. The other helpful procedure is venoclysis, the slow drop-by-drop introduction into a vein, through a hollow needle, of a salt or a sugar solution, which a patient needs to support his strength, to nourish or to cure him. A sterile container for such solutions, to be administered by venoclysis, is now a customary part of operating room equipment. If an operation is going...
...drawings touches great names an types in this field. Typical of the Florentines are the figures by Fillipino Lippi and Andrea del Sarto; of the Venetians, a boarded head by Carpaccio. Among the Germans are two Durers, and a follower of Holbein. The French are represented in their classic vein by the revered Claude and Poussin, in their elegance by Watteau and Fragonard...