Word: armes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...metallike element, have destructive effects upon the twirling spirochete which causes syphilis. In the usual modern treatment some compound of arsenic, such as Neosalvarsan, is used as the main weapon, some form of mercury or bismuth as supplement. The arsenic compound is usually injected into a vein in the arm. Mercury or bismuth compounds are injected into the rump...
This description of John Davison Rockefeller Sr. at play 36 years ago was divulged last week by his onetime golf teacher, Joe Mitchell, now professional at the Lake Shore Country Club in Chicago. Oilman Rockefeller had taken up the game when his horseshoe-pitching arm went dead, wished to keep his preparations secret from Mrs. Rockefeller, who already played a respectable duffer's game. Accordingly Instructor Mitchell was brought to the course every morning in Mr. Rockefeller's own closed carriage. The strange cries which occasionally sounded over the course came from guards posted to warn Mr. Rockefeller...
...Hooton, Medicine might gather valuable knowledge of evolutionary origins, from which spring many of man's present physical difficulties. "Man," says the author of Up From the Ape, "is a made-over animal. . . . His ancestors have functioned as arboreal pronogrades [moving on all fours] and brachiators, or arm-progressing tree-dwellers-not to mention more remote stages involving other changes of habitat, posture and locomotion. This protean history has necessitated repeated patching and reconstruction of a more or less pliable and long-suffering organism. The bony framework has been warped and cramped and stretched in one part or another...
...sentenced to hang by the neck until dead, the Mohammedan seemed stunned. Then suddenly Hakim Bakhtyar Rustomji Ratanji came to himself and without jittering or trembling gave his British judge with upraised arm the salute of Oriental warriors. As two wardens came to lead him from the prisoner's dock, Ratanji gave the same salute to the uncomfortable, astonished British jury...
...miracle as an event which creates faith, seems to spring from Shaw's heart instead of his head. A great, noble warmth suffuses the narrative from the time the tomboy Maid (Miss Cornell) makes de Baudricourt's hens lay in order to persuade him to horse and arm her, to the time she. reappears in the modern epilog as a mailed member of the hierarchy of heaven...