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Southland Times, Issue 23740, 11 February 1939, Page 13

Sixty per cent, of the physicians in Russia are women. * * * ♦ A gland is a secreting organ which extracts material from the blood and makes a new substance of it. A poor prophet was Victor Hugo, who back in 1880 wrote: “In the 20th ■century, war'will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead.” Everything that goes up must come down, but experiments show that a pointed bullet, fired straight in the air, takes about 50 seconds to reach its peak height and then descend. While it leaves the gun’s muzzle at 24,000 feet a second, it returns to earth with a velocity of only 475 feet a second.