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This week will be a hard one for the 1938 Varsity football team. Both Mondays so far have been bluish, but today will be even more so. Beaten by a Brown team which took them by surprise, battered and bruised after a magnificent stand against the three-deep powerhouse of Cornell, Captain Green and his men saw the powers of fortune let them down in their third attempt Saturday...
...watery eyes, sensitive to light; at the same time, or a few hours later, an acute cold, sneezing, running nose, harsh cough. Within 24 to 48 hours the special signs of measles appear on the inside surfaces of the cheeks and lips. These are bright red spots with minute bluish-white centres. On the fourth day of the attack, bluish red spots appear behind the ears, at the border of the hair, at the temples, at the back of the neck, and spread over the entire body. The rash usually lasts four days...
...down the rear brim of their hats, and the water spouted into the face of those behind. The Vagabond's girl borrowed his handkerchief to tie down her unstable hat; one was not enough, however, and she claimed his pocket handkerchief--it was blue and white; it now is bluish white...
...Riley Spitler of Eton, Ohio declared his belief that light of certain colors, relaxing or stimulating the optic nerves, may affect the entire nervous system. He recommended red for increasing blood pressure and curing dizziness, yellowish green or bluish green for stomach disorders, blue or violet for headaches...
...instant an embolus seats itself like a valve in an artery, the victim usually feels an excruciating pain at that point. Simultaneously "the affected extremity becomes paralyzed, cold and pale, the pulses disappear, and in a few hours the skin becomes mottled with a bluish hue. . . . On the fingers and toes, or sometimes over prominent bones . . . dark blisters appear which may open and from which the gangrene spreads...