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...rays and radium are potent weapons against the Cancer Ogre. They burn the turbulent, riotous cancer cells to death. But they may also kill healthy cells. Only expert technicians should fight cancer with X-rays or radium. (The same warning applies of course to the scalpel or cautery wielder.†) Research. Although the causes and ra tional treatment of Cancer are undetermined, a vast amount of research on the subject has piled up. Most of it is recent accumulation. First important international conference was held at Lake Mohonk, N. Y. in 1926. The U. S. has nine first-rate research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer Crusade | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...effects of mighty tragedy, of the inscrutably deep character of the chancellor, all are obtained without the use of clumsy mass-action: no wielder of rhetorical thunders. Meyer concentrates, impresses with fine delineation rather than overwhelms with sheer quantity and force. His is the method of the finished artist: but he does not let artistry crowd out the living appeal of his work, and the latter has by no means lost its vigor in the English Version...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: BOOKENDS | 6/11/1930 | See Source »

...Joseph Hall of San Francisco, 44-year-old cue-wielder: the national amateur three cushion billiard championship, beating one Frank Fleming 50 to 37 in 78 innings in a dull, cautious game in French Lick, Ind. ¶ The Argentine polo team-Manuel Andrada, Jose and Juan Reynal, Alfredo Harrington-handicapped at 23 goals, with a $250,000 string of ponies: their tenth straight game on the Pacific coast against teams of famed U. S. stars including 8-goalers Elmer Boeseke and Eric Pedley. ¶ Primo Camera, Italian brobdingnagian: a bout with one Frank Zavita in Jacksonville, Fla., by a knockout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won Mar. 31, 1930 | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

Near Medicine Lodge, Kan., stands a five-room brick cottage, from which, 27 years ago, crusaded Carrie Nation, Prohibitionist, Reformer, Hatchet-Wielder. Last week Prohibitionists began a movement to preserve this cottage as a Carrie Nation Memorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: National Shrine? | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

...Atlanta, Ga., journeyed dapper Walter Hagen, noisy Bill Mehlhorn, dour Bobbie Cruickshank, swart Gene Sarazen, with many another expert, professional wielder of wood and iron. They were to compete in the Southern Open Golf Tournament, suddenly of great importance because of record purse. They hoped with fervor for money; they also hoped for the almost unattainable honor of beating Bobbie Jones, amateur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Professional Palsy | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

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