Word: blood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mother's son of 'em sent me a telegram." Singer-Secretary Davis was asked for his own translation of his hymn. He begged off, said he was too busy. His friend Rev. Robert Perry of Washington supplied what he termed a ''very free translation": The Blood of the Cross the weak exalteth, More than conquerors to be; The Blood of the Cross the strong abaseth; Myriad hosts to bow to Thee; Oh, revive me With breezes from Calvary...
Slender nematode worms, three to four inches long, breed in the lymph spaces of the afflicted. Their larvae swarm through the blood stream. The kind prevalent in the West Indies and as far north as Charleston, S. C., crowd to the internal organs during daylight. At night they wriggle among the blood corpuscles until they reach the blood vessels close to the skin. Along comes a mosquito. It sucks a sleeper's blood, and with it some filaria larvae...
Fresh evidence suggesting that the beat of the heart is initiated by radioactive elements in the blood was reported by Professor Charles Christian Lieb of Columbia (pharmacologist) from the researches of Dr. Hendrik Zwaardemaker, professor emeritus of physiology at the University of Utrecht, Holland. Professor Zwaardemaker took the hearts out of eels and frogs, pumped through them physiological salt solutions. The hearts beat in vitro half an hour or so, then ceased. Professor Zwaardemaker added small amounts of potassium salt to his solution. The hearts began to beat again. They continued so for 24 hours. Potassium is weakly radioactive. Other...
...People first began talking about Ernst Lubitsch when Pola Negri was getting popular. He directed her in the pictures that made her reputation?Gypsy Blood, Montmartre, One Arabian Night. With her he made Madame Du Barry, called Passion in the U. S., which was credited for reviving a vogue in historical costume pictures. Son of a Berlin storekeeper, Lubitsch learned about acting from a comedian named Victor Arnold and from Max Reinhardt, who hired him for a while. After the Negri pictures, he showed that he was even better at comedy than serious things. He colored The Marriage Circle with...
...these suggestions. Doar Hayom, Jerusalem Hebrew daily, immediately demanded Dr. Magnes's resignation from the University. Said The New Palestine, U. S. official Zionist weekly: "Does Dr. Magnes imagine that he imbues the Arab leaders . . . with a sense of peace and responsibility when, as the fruit of their blood-thirsty lawlessness, he makes offers and con- cessions?" The Day, Manhattan Yiddish daily, decried Dr. Magnes's suggestions as "futile . . . engendered by hysteria." Replying, Chancellor Magnes warned: "It is impossible to continue as heretofore. . . . Without this realization the Jewish public the world over is bound to suffer disappointment...