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High tiers of oars from the Mediterranean were dipping whiteness In blueness. Ships swept from archipelagoes...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Hot in the Smithy Of Irish Poetry | 5/23/1975 | See Source »

...through the state every four years, their heads swimming with thoughts of 72 counties, ten Congressional districts, X number of delegates to the national convention. Most students descend on Wisconsin with only Rand McNally memories of the state as a cheese-colored mitten, its thumb thrust into a pale blueness labeled "Lake Michigan...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: A View of Wisconsin | 3/21/1968 | See Source »

Most of the preventable deaths, said Dr. McNamara, occur in the first three months of life. That is usually too early for obvious symptoms to develop-such as blueness of the extremities and lips, which would alert many a parent and any physician. Blueness and significant heart murmurs are almost certain not to appear until later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pediatrics: The Case of the Cranky Baby | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

...good line in its own right, and it has the further virtue of participating in the structure of the poem. Berman, on the other hand, inserts the following couplet in the midst of conventionally rhymed lines: "The thirst for melted fire that you had/Locked in you like the blueness of you blood...

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov jr., | Title: The Advocate | 9/28/1961 | See Source »

...Injected radioactive iodine 131 gave the answer through a scintillation counter: a forbidding 43%. The big remaining question was whether there were normal and separate blood-vessel connections to the liver. By operation's eve the twins were amazingly healthy, with no indication of heart trouble (therefore, no blueness). They ate voraciously, and poked at each other so vigorously that they had to be fitted with mittens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Separation Surgery | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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