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Back a child with bronchial asthma up against a tree and peg a lock of his hair into a hole bored in the tree trunk. Snip the lock from his head. When bark grows over the hair, the asthma will disappear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Folk Remedies | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

...twelfth day the skinny white mongrel rolled over, struggled to its front feet, barked a dismal bark. In a moment it crumpled up, but young Dr. Robert E. Cornish was delighted. Two other stray terriers which he had killed and revived in his University of California laboratory had died again for good and all within a few hours (TIME, March 26). But after being quite dead-heart stopped, breath stopped, eyes glazed-for four minutes on Friday, April 13, Dog No. 3 had been brought back to live day after day. This apparent miracle had been worked by means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dog No. 3 (Cont'd) | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...first class that those present are expected to get B's, otherwise they wouldn't have been chosen for the course. The C which rolls around at November may, therefore, dishearten the hopeful author and considerably deflate his ego. He will discover, however, that Mr. De Voto's bark is worse than his bite. Despite the wilting comments which decorate his themes the student will find his marks gradually improving, as he learns to purify his technique and eliminate errors of syntax which would, to quote an average comment, "disgrace a student in English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFIDENTIAL GUIDE | 4/24/1934 | See Source »

Which, when he oped his lips, dared not to bark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Blossom Time | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

...Crimson coach leaned out to bark further instructions, and the CRIMSON reporter waited for the opportunity to press his question. He knew that Whiteside has many gaping voids to fill in his Varsity shell before he'll be ready to match power and skill with the eggshell barks of Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Navy, and the rest. But after all, what is there to this business beside rowing and looking at the neck of the fellow in front...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 4/12/1934 | See Source »

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