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...Yearbook held a competition this fall and elected several freshmen and sophomores, but none would be prepared for the job of Copy Editor. According is the present Yearbook schedule, anal copy is due at the end of January, Mrs. Butler added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reinerts Quits Annex Yearbook for Paper | 11/19/1952 | See Source »

...style glimmers with reflections of many great styles (Gogol's, Flaubert's, Joyce's) and yet is distinctly his own: rapid, brilliantly metaphorical, daintily savage and smooth. The reader, never bored, can run his own blue pencil through Nabokov's excesses, such as the "anal ruby" of a bicycle. He will not have to use the pencil often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Superior Amusement | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

Yogins, reports Dr. Behanan, "place a great deal of emphasis on abdominal exercises. . . . Yogins attempt from very early in their practice to gain control of the anal sphincters. The first effort in this direction consists of repeated contraction and relaxation of the sphincters for several minutes in succession." An adept can, by muscular force alone, ventilate and irrigate his colon, or rinse out his stomach. A photograph of one of Swami Kuvalayananda's disciples in the latter act is included in Dr. Behanan's well-illustrated text...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Yale's Yogin | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

Well rewarded were the troubled Southern doctors by two medical diversions at the convention: 1) an operation by which Drs. Walter Freeman & James Winston Watts of Washington actually cut the ability to worry out of the brain; 2) operations by which Dr. Hugh Hampton Young of Baltimore remodels anal, urinary and genital defects. Psychiatrists and brain surgeons stormed at each other concerning the good sense of Drs. Freeman & Watts's work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Southern Doctors | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...Forster twins are females in appearance. Both lack anal openings, which is an early embryonic condition. Like young animal embryos and full grown birds, each has a single opening, or cloaca, for its urogenital and rectal passages. The tube which joined these children contained the great gut (colon) of both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gut-Joined Twins | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

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