Word: abouts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bearded Afghans moved mum as ghosts about Kabul last week, afraid of losing their ears, anxious not to be blown into bloody fragments from a cannon mouth. Their bandit-king, fierce, white-toothed, grinning Habibullah Khan, was in one of his wild rages. For weeks he has been stubbornly defending...
In a wickedly dirty hall smelling of beer slops and iodoform, two men, their seconds, the doctors and judge stood on a sawdust-covered dais. "At other tables," said Correspondent Hunt, "students were drinking pale Pilsener beer, as calmly as if they were about to attend a lecture on philosophy...
The National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses met in New York City last week and uttered plaints. The U. S. Negro population is about 10,000,000 and only 365 colored graduate nurses exist to look after their sickness. Only one of the 365 has a bachelor of science degree...
Harvard goodies dusted in the dormitories, wiped the windows, made the beds last week to room properly about 500 foreign physiologists and their families who joined with about the same number of U. S. and Canadian physiologists in the 13th International Physiological Congress. The congressmen met for a first get...
Meat Diet. Arctic Explorers Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Karsten Anderson lived in the U. S. eating for a whole year nothing but beef muscle, tongue, liver, kidney, brain, fat, bone marrow, veal, lamb, pork, chicken, meat broths, black tea, water. They lived as ordinary city dwellers, except that they carefully walked...