Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...railway chiefs and others, charged with causing 17 train wrecks in January alone. Many of the accused have already confessed, including one Burstein, head of the Mineralnye Vody traffic department. Pravda, official news-organ of the Communist Party, urged the Soviet to make its enemies "pay with gallons of blood for every drop of workers' blood they shed...
...squealed, the two boys went into earnest action, lunging, slashing, parrying, feinting, with danger flashing at the needle-points of their weapons. After many lively passages, Student Cousineau made a long, savage thrust and from Student Bauer's arm spurted a red jet of real blood. "Touche!" cried the referee and the duel was over...
Moving spirit of this extraordinary performance, which was claimed to have drawn "the first blood ever intentionally shed by U. S. college fencers," was Los Angeles Junior's lively Fencing Coach John Tatum, who exulted: "We have been trying to arrange an affair like this for three years to popularize fencing." The college publicity department had timed it to coincide with a campus dance. Nothing was at stake except Student Bauer's desire for the No. 2 rating on the fencing team, which Student Cousineau enjoyed by virtue of his showing in the Pacific Coast fencing tournament last...
...baby with an enlarged thymus is usually fat and flabby. Because the thymus presses upon the windpipe, gullet, large blood vessels and nerves, a thymic baby when excited will develop harsh breathing, turn blue, hold his breath, go into convulsions. Immediate remedy is an oxygen tent. X-rays of the infant's chest will reveal any enlargement of the thymus. X-ray irradiations will reduce an enlarged thymus. The complexions of thymic children after irradiation never seem to grow old, always remain peaches & cream...
General Booth had cut short a world tour, hastened from the Orient to London. Soon Commissioner Mapp took to his bed with high blood pressure, and his superior caused it to be announced that he was taking an extended furlough because of ill health. Commissioner Mapp, however, as if calling a bluff, demanded, under Army rules, a hearing before a secret court of inquiry. The five-officer court unanimously convicted Commissioner Mapp of whatever charges General Booth had brought against him. and gossips said that those charges involved "a woman." Indignant Commissioner Mapp announced he would sue for defamation...