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Strictly presenting the official Soviet viewpoint are three more International books: 1) The Illustrated History of the Russian Revolution, Vol. I ($2.75), a striking picture book, but so biased that it does not contain a single photograph of famed Leon Trotsky, who is now exiled and disgraced; 2) Leninism by Josef Stalin ($2.50), the doctrines of the "Father of Soviet Russia" expounded by the present Dictator; and 3) The New Theatre and Cinema of Soviet Russia ($6), a vivid mingling of Spartan text and exuberant pictures, displaying the only world-known and world-admired Soviet...
...people are sickened by strawberries, bananas or tomatoes, by plant pollens, by cocain or morphine. Just why, scientists have not yet learned. It is impossible to measure the poison liberated by the various irritants. But by combining the technique of pharmacology, immunology and bacteriology and working from a chemical viewpoint, slow progress to discovery is being made, said former Dean Arthur I. Kendall of Northwestern University Medical School. Serums are proving useful...
...diagnosing Napoleon's career, and Bismarck's, Ludwig traced ascent to fame through youthful virility and brilliant ability, to anticlimax due to pride and hasty resentment. Perhaps something of habit has influenced him to a similar interpretation of Jesus's meteoric career, or perhaps from his viewpoint as a Jew he can but recognize as failure that tragic climax on the cross, which centuries of religious enthusiasts have eulogized as victory, and even the "higher criticism" of late years has diagnosed as the wise choice of One who knew that more could be done by dramatic death...
Strangely enough, the professors demurred more than anyone else. The demeanor of the Yale pedagogue quoted is characteristic. From their viewpoint, such a use of divine learning borders on sacrilege...
...weapons of the body. When an infection sets in, the old organism stokes up the furnace, heats up the blood, sends it racing round in hot haste to destroy the enemy. At one time the best medical practice believed in damping the fire, bringing down the fever. Now the viewpoint changes. Medical men are conjuring up fevers to help them fight widely different diseases. Last week Herr Doktor August Bier, head of Berlin's largest hospital, told the Berlin Medical Society about his use of fire as a curative agent. He burns the body to bring on a fever...