Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People with high blood pressure, or some diseases of the heart and kidneys, are often forbidden to use salt. Last spring the Foster-Milburn Co. of Buffalo thought it had found something harmless that would give food a salty flavor. The new product, Westsal, contained lithium chloride (table salt is sodium chloride...
Elsewhere in Britain last week, other blood-sportsmen stood bloodied but unbowed before their detractors. In Wiltshire, a meeting of local county executives gave short shrift to a Labor bill recently introduced in Parliament "to prohibit the hunting and coursing of certain animals." If such a bill became law, they warned, "Labor's Minister of Agriculture could forget all about any future cooperation from farmers." In Yorkshire, the Master of the Bedale Hunt stood firm against the attack of a lifelong cripple who, denied the use of his arms, had seized a pen in his teeth to charge...
This short novel from Evelyn Waugh (published in Britain in 1947*) reads like a malicious parody of his good ones. It is the story of a middle-aged teacher of the classics who happens to become (through some "blood-brotherhood in dimness") the greatest living authority on an obscure 17th Century Central European poet named Bellorius. On the Bellorius Tercentenary, Scott-King is invited to Simona, a city in Neutralia, for the celebration...
...Dame looked him over as a basketball prospect, but decided that he was too awkward. He decided on a pre-law course at Chicago's De Paul University. There, Coach Ray Meyer made him shadow-box and skip rope until Mikan panted: "What do you want, Coach, my blood?" Short, husky Coach Meyer is still hard to satisfy. Says he of Mikan: "He'd be great if he were nine inches smaller." His size sets Mike apart, even among pro basketball players. At home he requires a specially-made 7-ft. bed and an elongated reclining chair...
...Bond of Blood. The second and last volume of The Diaries (the first appeared last year) reveals the crescendo of this torment, as it filled tuberculous Franz Kafka's own final years, up to his death in 1924, at 40. His father, a stolid and self-possessed businessman who was a living reproach to the introspective writer, was always at the center of his thoughts. He loved his father and admired him; he also feared and hated him. The "bond of blood too is the target of my hatred; the sight of the double bed at home, the used...