Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glowering while an auctioneer put up nine cows for sale. For the cattle no one bid a farthing. Presently the farmers formed a procession, moved down a Kent road shouting, singing, bearing effigies of homely Queen Anne and handsome Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. In the procession donkeys bore such placards as: "Queen Anne's Dead!" "The Parsons' Feet Have Been Under Our Table Too Long," "The Tithe Is the Death Watch Beetle Of Agriculture," "Archbishop of Cant. Church on Sunday but Hands Off the Farmer!" Spectators pelted the effigies with stones, clods, dung, mouldy mangel-wurzels...
Treatment proved simple. "A large-bore needle was inserted into the scrotum and air under pressure whistled out. The size of the scrotum did not change for some time, but it was noted that the swelling of the abdomen had somewhat decreased. It was found that the air under the skin of the legs, abdomen and chest could be gently massaged into the scrotum and thence out the needle. It was felt that the patient had a valve-like laceration of the lung. Therefore, a large bore needle was inserted into the right pleural space and a rubber tube connected...
...corps of 100 secret service men drove them back to a nearby cliff, ripped films from snapshotters' cameras. By the time Donald Douglas' big secret was safely launched on a test-flight, nothing had been learned of it except that it was a huge flying-boat and bore the name XP3D...
...presumption that the cause of angina pectoris lies somewhere in the heart, physiologists have studied that organ painstakingly. The first offshoots of the mighty aorta are two small twining arteries, called the coronaries, which feed blood to the hardworking heart muscle. If the bore of the coronary arteries is narrowed by disease or if cardiac circulation is otherwise interfered with, the cells of the heart muscle suffocate. The heart will stand for such maltreatment just so long. Then suddenly the heart "utters a piercing cry of distress." That cry is angina pectoris...
Some weeks ago the Dunster House menus bore the information that Professor Shapley would dine with the members and speak on a topic of interest in the Common Room after dinner. The genial astronomer fell ill and the visit had to be postponed--but the harm was already done...