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...Walter E. Dove of Dallas. The description by Fred DeForest Weidman of Philadelphia of the skin infection technically called dermatophytosis, popularly ringworm, and in certain advertisements "athlete's foot." Xanthomatosis, which makes children look like frogs, squatty and popeyed, and which Merrill Clary Sosman of Harvard found X-rays will relieve and sometimes cure. The scolding which Harvard's George Richards Minot gave lazy physicians because they think liver extracts will cure every kind of anemia. The scorn with which Arthur Joseph Cramp of Chicago flayed sellers and buyers of patent medicines. The plan of Theodore Louis Squier of Milwaukee...
...horseshoe that hangs in the navigation room of the great Dornier flying boat DO-X finally justified its presence last week when the ship roared across the South Atlantic and landed prettily at Natal, Brazil. It was seven months after she had set out from Lake Constance. Switzerland. The flight from Bolama, Portuguese Guinea, West Africa, whither the boat bestirred itself a month ago. was made in three jumps: a short one to the Cape Verde Islands where it remained nearly a week; a long and creditable one (1,400 mi.) to Fernando Noronha Island, 200 mi. off the Brazilian...
...X is to remain in Natal about three weeks for overhauling and visit Rio de Janeiro for about a month before proceeding to the U. S. The famed elaborate furnishings, which had been pulled out of the cabin and shipped by steamer, will be restored in South America...
...Lect. Hall Professor Chamberlin, Sec. AA New Lect. Hall Mr. Crane, Sec. D. E. K New Lect. Hall Mr. Daly, Sec. J. L Memorial Hall Mr. Elisworth, Sec. B. C Memorial Hall Dr. Ham, Sec. A Memorial Hall Mr. Leighton, Sec. V. Y Memorial Hall Mr. Phinney, Sec. Q. X Geel. Lect. Rm. Mr. Smith, Sec. H Geel. Lect. Rm. Mr. Towle, Sec. U. Z Geel. Lect. Rm. Dr. White, Sec. O.W Harvard...
...James's work is not quite the sort which wins a Nobel Prize in physics nowadays. The Nobel tendency in recent years has been to reward workers with the sub-atomic-X-ray effects (Taman, Compton), wave mechanics (de Broglie), electron count (Millikan), atomic structure (Bohr), quantum hypothesis (Planck), forces (Einstein). Sir James has the mathematical baggage and creative imagination requisite for joining that group. But he applies himself to descriptions of the universe and its relatively minute stellar components. It was for that work that the Franklin Institute deemed him worthy of U. S. Physics' top medal...