Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Superbly photographed, "The Prisoner of Zenda" does not devote itself to love and intrigue alone; many scenes are salted with a humor that is as dashing as the theme. Anyone with red blood in his veins can find a splendid opportunity for escape from the humdrum ways of a modern world by visiting the University...
...contributed to scientific journals and was known for his method of estimating the lactic acid in the blood...
Fresh from a 5-4 overtime defeat of Princeton last Saturday, the Terriers are out to draw their second taste of Big Three blood and promise to provide a busy evening for the Crimson. On the other hand the Stubbsmen are smarting from their defeat by the Olympics Tuesday night and will be out to redeem themselves. Greater reserve strength would seem to make Harvard the favorite in tonight's encounter...
...painful and sometimes fatal diver's affliction called "the bends" is caused by bubbles of nitrogen formed in the blood during a too quick ascent after a deep dive. Helium is so light that it tends to escape from the blood without forming bubbles of damaging size. Thus Nohl's suit considerably reduces the time necessary for a dive. But wishing to take no chances with his first 420-ft. try, he was brought up very slowly, in one hour and 45 minutes...
...never achieved such results. That Caesar and Antony went down was not Cleopatra's fault; if, says Ludwig, they had followed her advice, her example in killing off two brothers and two sisters, had not naively pardoned their enemies, everything would have been all right. Pale, cold-blooded Octavian, whom easygoing Antony had twice neglected to "liquidate," won out because he followed a more modern technique of demagogy and blood purges. It is in tracing such blunders of Caesar and Antony that Author Ludwig makes Cleopatra's maneuvers shine with genius, makes her biography a nice contemporary commentary...