Word: bane
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...pretty grim, especially since Yale has one of the best Freshman Squash squads of Bulldog history, the team being composed largely of players from Exeter which last year had the best prep school rating in the East. The Crimson team, for the Yale match, will doubtless have Grey and Bane for number one and two men, respectively, while McDonald, Stevens and Gorenstein will battle it out for the remaining three positions with Marshall Hughes and Nevill Cramer, two men who are coming up fast from the second team...
...half-dozen representatives of the undergraduate body acted as guides and hosts to the group of sailors in their tour of Harvard. Their was no difficulty about language was every one of the fifteen spoke excellent English which bore little resemblance to the "I tank I bane go home; I vant to be alone" of their famous compatriot, Grets Garbo...
Wound Shock. The bane of medical officers in France during World War I. "wound shock" is a condition of "lowered vitality" which follows wounds, even trivial ones. Unchecked, it causes death. Wound shock comes from pain, loss of body heat, bleeding and toxemia. Lack of water balance, due to excessive sweating and short water rations, makes soldiers ready victims. The loss of fluid thickens their blood, produces a high concentration of poisonous urea. Best treatment for wound shock, discovered in the last year of World War I: 1) small doses of morphine for relief of pain; 2) an abundance...
...When New Dealer Maury Maverick was defeated for renomination in San Antonio, Tex. last July, the New Deal's local fences obviously needed mending. Last week Oscar Morgan Powell, 39. regional U. S. Social Security director, popular San Antonio lawyer, was called to Washington to succeed Frank Bane, resigning as Executive Director (No. 2 man) of the Social Security Board. Effective date: November 1. Almost simultaneously a special representative of the U. S. Attorney General, accompanied by two agents of the FBI, arrived in town to look into the primary in which Assistant District Attorney Paul Joseph Kilday beat...
...Greatest bane of Atlantic seaboard oystermen is not the four months without R but the family of Asteroidea-starfish. When a starfish wants an oyster, it wraps its arms around an oyster's shell and pulls. The oyster resists, but its shell-closing muscle eventually tires and its shell gapes. The starfish then intrudes its stomach into the opening, absorbs the oyster. To reduce the numbers of starfish preying on their beds, oystermen frequently drag frayed ropes over the sea bottom. The spiny skins of the starfish become entangled in the ropes and they are hauled to the surface...